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theabennett•1d ago

Ink smeared on 400 flyers in Anaheim on Monday and I found out why 6 hours late

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blaker75•3d ago

Rant: my 2 color job kept coming out off register and the fix was a 60 cent part

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the_piper•4d ago

A press operator in Reno told me my blacks were stacking wrong and it took 6 weeks to see it

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the_piper•5d ago

Just lost $60 on a pack of 'premium' inkjet photo paper that smeared every single print

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casey787•10d ago

Hit 5,000 sheets on my Epson without a single head clog, that's a record for me

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the_caleb•10d ago

The difference between 300 DPI and 150 DPI showed up in a 4x6 print I did last night

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charles_henderson•20d ago

Rode 9 hours with a clogged printhead, then fixed it in 4 minutes

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the_jason•20d ago

Hit 500 prints on my Epson 8550 and the color drift finally clicked

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allen.reese•21d ago

Matte laminate vs gloss on a 400-page art book in Boston, I chose wrong

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CMYK Console Crashers

c/cmyk-console-crashers

A place to share and fix weird printing problems, like why your neon green came out muddy or how to stop your plotter from eating your poster.

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c/cmyk-console-crashers

Ink smeared on 400 flyers in Anaheim on Monday and I found out why 6 hours late

Rant: my 2 color job kept coming out off register and the fix was a 60 cent part

A press operator in Reno told me my blacks were stacking wrong and it took 6 weeks to see it

Just lost $60 on a pack of 'premium' inkjet photo paper that smeared every single print

Hit 5,000 sheets on my Epson without a single head clog, that's a record for me

Switched from RGB soft-proofing to actual CMYK profiles, huge color shift

Neon green looks like swamp water unless you nail the underprint first

Muddy neon green traced back to a missing 2% light magenta

Chose matte laminate over gloss for a client's brochures, regret it 3 weeks in

Why does my wide format printer hate metallic vinyl all of a sudden?

Gloss laminate vs matte on my banner order, the gloss won big

The difference between 300 DPI and 150 DPI showed up in a 4x6 print I did last night

Rode 9 hours with a clogged printhead, then fixed it in 4 minutes

Hit 500 prints on my Epson 8550 and the color drift finally clicked

Matte laminate vs gloss on a 400-page art book in Boston, I chose wrong