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Title: accurip question
Post by: shellyky on June 15, 2011, 12:23:58 PM
Accurip--is there a way to limit the program from printing anything below a 5% dot by chance?  Lately photoshop has been showing me 0% black on my white areas, but it prints with a background of single digit dots.  I'll have to play with the levels and reprint it and hope it doesnt print anything that time.  It's odd.  So if i could limit that in the program somehow that woudl be great--wasting paper gets me to level 10 frustration. 
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: ebscreen on June 15, 2011, 01:09:26 PM
Yeah, I effing hate that. In Photoshop I always try to remember to eyedrop the background of my
channels, in a large area if possible, to check for stray grey.
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: shellyky on June 15, 2011, 01:34:19 PM
Yeah i can't quite find the cause of it--because it "says" i'm at 0%.  it took 3 tries to get it no dots this time...I may have narrowed it down to it coming in as 'grayscale' instead of 'multichannel' (when i delete all but 1 channel in separation studio and bring it in from there i get the dots i think)...but when i bring in all the channels and then delete them from photoshop, it seems OK. 
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: Ron Pierson on June 15, 2011, 02:34:01 PM
Hi Guys (and girls)
I have 3 printers and accuRIP everywhere in the art dept. We run about 15 rolls of film a week. I think it is all about photoshop. Look to your background and see if it has a percentage in it. We use EPSON 4880 and 7880 with no issue. I think the EPSON's with lower product numbers will give you this kind of issue but I'm not sure about this.
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: ZooCity on June 15, 2011, 02:42:50 PM
Out of PS set the color management to "no color management"

Unless you're running cs5 which looks to be bad news for printing seps out of...

http://www.softwareforscreenprinterstech.com/component/rsticketspro/view-article/24-acc-0704--accurip-prints-halftones-in-wrong-areas-from-photoshop-file (http://www.softwareforscreenprinterstech.com/component/rsticketspro/view-article/24-acc-0704--accurip-prints-halftones-in-wrong-areas-from-photoshop-file)

Lots of pretty decent articles in there by Charlie as well. 
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: Evo on June 15, 2011, 03:43:48 PM
Accurip--is there a way to limit the program from printing anything below a 5% dot by chance?  Lately photoshop has been showing me 0% black on my white areas, but it prints with a background of single digit dots.  I'll have to play with the levels and reprint it and hope it doesnt print anything that time.  It's odd.  So if i could limit that in the program somehow that woudl be great--wasting paper gets me to level 10 frustration.
Call Freehand and ask them what the simple fix is. I think you can go into the Advanced Dot Gain feature and clip the 5% to zero, which will lock the 5% from ever printing. At least this is my assumption.
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: blue moon on June 15, 2011, 03:49:25 PM
as already mentioned by Zoo, it is your printer color management. Make sure it is turned off, that will solve your problem.
Title: Re: accurip question
Post by: shellyky on June 15, 2011, 06:17:09 PM
thanks guys ill check out both of those options