I'm not sure if this should go here or in color management, but perhaps someone will know if the problem is with the inkjet or with the RIP? I have a problem where, when we output grayscale tiff or jpg images, if the output is not set to grayscale, there is a kind of moldy-looking color cast to the print ( kind of a mint-green in the light areas and purple in the shadows) and if it is, then they come out washed out and weak due to only being in K. I've tried the different ICC profiles in PosterShop, and they all come out identical, no visible difference between any of them.
When I look at the paused output, I can see that the problem is that the neutral color is being made up of a combination of magenta and green, primarily. We don't want sepia tones, we want a rich but cool gray so that the shadows will be dark enough, but still neutral. I've tried manually editing the RIP color Filters, lowering the magenta, pushing up the cyan, increasing the yellow, and all that does is make the purple-green color cast more pronounced, or start turning it into a sepia. I've played with the original converting it to a duotone in Photoshop, and I've run about 15 samples with different ICC profiles and other settings, no luck, and my boss is getting impatient with my trial-and-error.
Has anyone experienced this either with the Onyx Postershop RIP or with a Mimaki inkjet? Any known fixes for this? I appreciate any help!
When I look at the paused output, I can see that the problem is that the neutral color is being made up of a combination of magenta and green, primarily. We don't want sepia tones, we want a rich but cool gray so that the shadows will be dark enough, but still neutral. I've tried manually editing the RIP color Filters, lowering the magenta, pushing up the cyan, increasing the yellow, and all that does is make the purple-green color cast more pronounced, or start turning it into a sepia. I've played with the original converting it to a duotone in Photoshop, and I've run about 15 samples with different ICC profiles and other settings, no luck, and my boss is getting impatient with my trial-and-error.
Has anyone experienced this either with the Onyx Postershop RIP or with a Mimaki inkjet? Any known fixes for this? I appreciate any help!