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| Posted on 3/27/08 at 08:22 PM | |
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Suggest to see if a ICC/ICM profile is available on the Epson sight for your printer. Would be OK to keep Corel as you have it set, just make sure you install the ICC profile and you choose to either color manage, or not to, in the Epson driver. The profile instruction from Epson, if available, should guide you to how to install and configure in the Epson driver. Some Epson's (like my R2400) have different profiles for different papers even. But your Pantone matching is still going to be challenging, so it might get you closer but not likely an exact match with a ICC profile from Epson for your printer. The reason why I asked about vector vs. bitmap is that Corel by default presents a CMYK palette and not a RGB palette. For your reference when using Corel Draw and printing sublimation or printing to a Photo printer such as Epsons use RGB color for vector text, objects and fills. Although photo printers use CMYK carts, they process images in RGB, since that is the standard for photos. CMYK color spaces are largely for the publishing industry or if you do seperations. Postscript equipted printers can handle CMYK color spaces natively, but Epson's don't do well. However, you mentioned that your are using Pantone. And in Corel both CMYK and RGB values are showing on the Pantone selections. Getting a precise Pantone match is very difficult on a printer designed to print photos. There are some printers more high end that have "Pantone Certification" meaning they are deemed accurate but not the Epson 3000. Pantone had special inks that can be used in an Epson along with special profiles for Pantone matches but discontinued this year. But I have a "poor man's" method for matching color precisely. I posted a resorce that can help you get exact colors. Just make sure your Pantone palette is substituted for the RGB pallete in the instructions. http://www.dyesub.org/forum/index.php?webtag=DSSI&msg=7313.1 If you are doing regular hardcopy printing then of course you can skip the heat transfer part. But this method works very good for heat transfers as well. The concept is that your monitor and/or printer can be way out in "left field" but you can still achieve precise color by actually printing palettes and see where the colors "land" and reference the RGB values. Worse case is you find the closest match and tweak. The method above will work, if you don't have the time to do it that way you can try and force all vectors to RGB bitmap, set the dpi as needed, as follows from the main pull-down menu. Bitmaps>Convert To Bitmap> The select RGB COlor and your desired DPI. Uncheck "Apply ICC profile" if your not set up for one. Hope this helps. Michael | ||
 
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