Problems with Vivid Magenta on 3880

[JohnBrew]

I'm hoping Eric Chan will weigh in on this...
With sunrise and sunset images with red in the sky when printing with the 3880 they now show up magenta which is not a natural sky color. They were fine with the 3800. Is it possible to use the old magenta ink cartridge with the 3880? I realize the  computations are different, just wondering about the feasibility of this to solve my problem.
Thanks.

[langier]

I don't think the 3800 Magenta is compatible with the 3880 between the chip and the keying. Are you using canned or custom profiles? Maybe the easy way here is to get a custom profile of your ink and paper and see if that helps.

Another factor to consider is if your monitor has been profiled/calibrated. If not, start there and see if that may be the problem with your magenta sky.

[howardm]

might want to check a different rendering intent.  It's not hard to see a sky color going magenta-ish if it tended toward out of gamut

[pompon44]

Hi,

What paper are you using ?

I got such a problem when starting with my 3880 (not coming from a 3800, though), and after many tests I convinced myself that the culprit was the paper I was using (Ilford Galerie Smooth Pearl, which turned out to be very much too "blue" to my taste).

See http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=53465.0

Hope this helps,

Regards,
 

[bill t.]

Look at the image in Soft Proofing with your printing profile and rendering intent selected.  Make a Hue/Saturation layer and play with desaturating Red, Magenta, and Blue, alone and in combination.  Soft proofing has its ins and outs, but it's definitely a good way to avoid clipping which is probably what you're getting if we assume your screen calibration and profiles are more or less OK.

Or less scientifically, print some test strips with Red and/or Magenta desaturated about 20 to 30 points.

Edit...just to state the obvious, I assume you have "No Color Correction" selected in the driver, and "Photoshop Manages Colors" in the Photoshop printing dialogue.