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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer
which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? |
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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
=?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in
: I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. |
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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
Oops, forgot to say, this is a large format printer and I am making a 48" x
36" poster. "COPYCAT" wrote: I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? |
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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
Thanks Matti, I will give this a try. There is nothing like someone giving us
a poster setup with a blue sky with fluffy clouds background that turns out purple! I'll let you know how we do on that! "Matti Vuori" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in : I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. . |
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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
Matti, went in and tried what you said to do. They had Productivity (we had
it set at that) then max quality and max quality-enhanced IQ. Tried them all, no difference. I even went into the properties of the printer and changed the printer color profile to sRGB as Powerpoint is, NADA! One thing you said I must disagree with, RGB can output different colors on different printers, due probably to the print drivers or color profile. Thankfully the poster I was printing yesterday had a solid background and I was able to create a color box and insert in the background. Of course, the two graphs had the same background and I had to change them also. The poster printed great and it is a real blue. We shouldn't have to do this though. I think I will contact both Microsoft and HP to get a more workable solution. Seems we did not have this problem with the old versions of Office products. Oh, and I went into Publisher, there is a CMYK option in there. WHY NOT POWERPOINT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks and keep the suggestions coming please!!! "Matti Vuori" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in : I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. . |
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Publisher is a tool to create *printed* documents -- thus a CMYK option
(taking your word for it -- I didn't check). PowerPoint is a *presentation* tool designed for projecting...thus RGB (in other words, PowerPoint was not designed for print). "COPYCAT" wrote: Matti, went in and tried what you said to do. They had Productivity (we had it set at that) then max quality and max quality-enhanced IQ. Tried them all, no difference. I even went into the properties of the printer and changed the printer color profile to sRGB as Powerpoint is, NADA! One thing you said I must disagree with, RGB can output different colors on different printers, due probably to the print drivers or color profile. Thankfully the poster I was printing yesterday had a solid background and I was able to create a color box and insert in the background. Of course, the two graphs had the same background and I had to change them also. The poster printed great and it is a real blue. We shouldn't have to do this though. I think I will contact both Microsoft and HP to get a more workable solution. Seems we did not have this problem with the old versions of Office products. Oh, and I went into Publisher, there is a CMYK option in there. WHY NOT POWERPOINT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks and keep the suggestions coming please!!! "Matti Vuori" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in : I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. . |
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Printing from the RGB to CMYK
Yikes, do they not know that folks put together huge display posters in
Powerpoint, especially on campuses and such because that is a creative program they have built into their computers. The majority I ask say they do not have Publisher since that has to be bought seperate. The thing is, although blue is tricky at best, I have only noticed this problem with the new version of Powerpoint. We have been making large (up to 42" wide or tall in landscape paper and widest we've made is 8 foot) posters for about 10 years now and only recently have had the problem with blue showing as purple. Whatever happened to WYSIWYG??? I know that was way back in the dinosaur age, but things should improve with time, not be less workable! "Sandy Johnson" wrote: Publisher is a tool to create *printed* documents -- thus a CMYK option (taking your word for it -- I didn't check). PowerPoint is a *presentation* tool designed for projecting...thus RGB (in other words, PowerPoint was not designed for print). "COPYCAT" wrote: Matti, went in and tried what you said to do. They had Productivity (we had it set at that) then max quality and max quality-enhanced IQ. Tried them all, no difference. I even went into the properties of the printer and changed the printer color profile to sRGB as Powerpoint is, NADA! One thing you said I must disagree with, RGB can output different colors on different printers, due probably to the print drivers or color profile. Thankfully the poster I was printing yesterday had a solid background and I was able to create a color box and insert in the background. Of course, the two graphs had the same background and I had to change them also. The poster printed great and it is a real blue. We shouldn't have to do this though. I think I will contact both Microsoft and HP to get a more workable solution. Seems we did not have this problem with the old versions of Office products. Oh, and I went into Publisher, there is a CMYK option in there. WHY NOT POWERPOINT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks and keep the suggestions coming please!!! "Matti Vuori" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in : I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. . |
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Have you tried saving as a PDF and printing that?
-- James Bart: "According to creationism, there were no cavemen." Homer: "Well good riddance, their drawings sucked and they all looked like hippies!" "COPYCAT" wrote in message ... Yikes, do they not know that folks put together huge display posters in Powerpoint, especially on campuses and such because that is a creative program they have built into their computers. The majority I ask say they do not have Publisher since that has to be bought seperate. The thing is, although blue is tricky at best, I have only noticed this problem with the new version of Powerpoint. We have been making large (up to 42" wide or tall in landscape paper and widest we've made is 8 foot) posters for about 10 years now and only recently have had the problem with blue showing as purple. Whatever happened to WYSIWYG??? I know that was way back in the dinosaur age, but things should improve with time, not be less workable! "Sandy Johnson" wrote: Publisher is a tool to create *printed* documents -- thus a CMYK option (taking your word for it -- I didn't check). PowerPoint is a *presentation* tool designed for projecting...thus RGB (in other words, PowerPoint was not designed for print). "COPYCAT" wrote: Matti, went in and tried what you said to do. They had Productivity (we had it set at that) then max quality and max quality-enhanced IQ. Tried them all, no difference. I even went into the properties of the printer and changed the printer color profile to sRGB as Powerpoint is, NADA! One thing you said I must disagree with, RGB can output different colors on different printers, due probably to the print drivers or color profile. Thankfully the poster I was printing yesterday had a solid background and I was able to create a color box and insert in the background. Of course, the two graphs had the same background and I had to change them also. The poster printed great and it is a real blue. We shouldn't have to do this though. I think I will contact both Microsoft and HP to get a more workable solution. Seems we did not have this problem with the old versions of Office products. Oh, and I went into Publisher, there is a CMYK option in there. WHY NOT POWERPOINT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks and keep the suggestions coming please!!! "Matti Vuori" wrote: =?Utf-8?B?Q09QWUNBVA==?= wrote in : I work in a digital printing facility with a HP Designjet 5500ps printer which is set up CMYK. Powerpoint is set to RGB. We find that when we send a very blue background slide for making a poster the blue turns to PURPLE! Even if we save as a PDF that turns to purple. Does anyone know how to get around this terrible problem we are having. We have had customers reject the poster since it does not look like the file they sent. I can't blame them. We have been printing out various boxes of shades of just blue (all come out various shades of purple) then add green. Once the green is added, the color is blue and depending on the percentages, lighter or darker. This is nuts, we can not tell people to make these odd changes to their slides because powerpoint won't talk to our CMYK printer. IS THERE ANY WAY TO CHANGE POWERPOINT TO CMYK????? This is really not a problem with Powerpoint, as RGB is RGB no matter what application it comes from. PPT is very standard obeying in its usage of colot. And tt would be a wrong strategy to change the colors in the file because the same adjustment can be done during printing. After all, PPT files are mostly for displaying and as your printer is clearly capable of printing blue, there is no reason not to make blue print blue... This kind of a color conversion mismatch will happen because the settings for changing the color profile during printing is not optimal. Blue has traditionally been a difficult color to print, and one needs sometimes to figure out a strategy to get best results. This is how you do it with most printers: In your printer's control panel find the settings for Color Management. There should be a setting for the "intent" of color conversion. That may be "absolute colorimetric", "perpectual", "relative colorimetric" or even "business graphics". This is the critical setting and it can freely be changed case by case when you need to. If is not the last one, try that, if it is available in your driver (perhaps it is called something else). But ff the value of the setting already is the last one, try changing it to "perceptual". And then the rest... but at least "absolute colorimetric" really should produce crap. . |
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