color profiles for large format printers

[loco]

Hey all,
I'm starting to do some research on setting up color profiles for large format printers. We have a mutoh Spitfire 62" wide and (2) Cannon iPF8000s. We use Onxy 7.3.2 rip software. I'm just trying to match up the amount of ink I lay down to the different materials I print on. Do any of you know of a website or place I can go to get this type of information. Our ink cost are really high and I really need to find as much information about this. I did find out that the rip I have to set this up and been disabled (not a big surprize)

-loco

[uncle charlie]

senior loco.. email this guy Andy Biggs.. He writes color profiles for Cannon.. and he's a good friend of mine.. his email is andybiggs@andybiggs.com

[squeegeethree]

Usually you get a spider and a color swatch scanner (we have an X-rite). You calibrate your scanner, monitor and printer all together for each substrate and build color profiles. It's a big headache.

[loco]

I talked to a guy that we had to out source some printing to. He just bought a wide format Epson and before that he went to an in-house siminar that the people who sold him the printer put on. There was a lady brought in that went into detail about color and was able to show how you can back off on the amount of color you lay down and still match better. I understand this because when I use to run large web presses we use to print sometimes on paper that was your basic newprint for department store ads and sometimes we would print on coated gloss paper. We really had to back the ink way back when we printed on gloss to make the color match. Of course the people who sell us the ink and the media for the wide format printers are acting as if it dosn't really make a difference.

Just doing my homework

@ Uncle Charlie,..Thank You

-loco

[mikeybloodbath]

Usually you get a spider and a color swatch scanner (we have an X-rite). You calibrate your scanner, monitor and printer all together for each substrate and build color profiles. It's a big headache.

yep. we also print our own swatch book as a frame o' reference. then chase the specific spot down that way