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Hi all, I'm new to the large format printing world so forgive my ignorance. I have a HP 315 print/cut solution. I've been printing on Orafol 3165RA without any issues for a good while. Recently the red/orange/yellow colors are getting washed out. 100% red (0 100 0 0) will produce a pinking red. Pure yellow (0 0 100 0) produces a faded banana yellow. It seemed to come out of nowhere. It was recommended I do a color calibration so I ran that. A couple things...
1) Does it self calibrate or do I need to do anything after it prints? The menu didn't say anything else so I assume it internally figures it out?
2) The calibration print is very splotchy on all of the print (see attached pic cal1). I am using the downloadable 3165-10 color profile at 100% saturation, 10 pass. The temp is set higher at 248* F. Any time I print blacks or grays using just the black channel (ex: 0 0 0 20) it's a very grainy finish. It never makes smooth grays. But I can't use any colors like 20 20 20 20 because the grays turn blue or purple.
You can see an example I attached of a number that was 3 colors (YEL 15 0 100 0, BLK 0 0 0 100, GRAY 0 0 0 35). Everything has the grainy look and is splotchy. (cal2)
Not sure what to do about getting higher quality prints but it's not too impressive at this point. I'm saying it's likely something I'm not doing right so any feedback would be fantastic. Thanks in advance.