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any tricks for making black look really black

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any tricks for making black look really black kwisj 04 Nov 09:04
  any tricks for making black look really black Kevin Cozens 05 Nov 18:34
   any tricks for making black look really black kwisj 05 Nov 19:24
kwisj
2015-11-04 09:04:14 UTC (over 9 years ago)
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any tricks for making black look really black

Hi we are using a ricoh sg 7100 printer with sublijer R inks and gimp 2.8 We are printing onto 100% polyester. the only thing is that the blacks look a littel washed out....any tricks for the settings on GIMP to try and work around this Thanks
Kwisj

Kevin Cozens
2015-11-05 18:34:26 UTC (over 9 years ago)

any tricks for making black look really black

On 15-11-04 04:04 AM, kwisj wrote:

We are printing onto 100% polyester. the only thing is that the blacks look a littel washed out....any tricks for the settings on GIMP to try and work around

When it comes to printing, black ink by itself won't give you a real dark black. The blackest-black you can get when printing in CMYK is C-75 M-68 Y-67 K-90 (from a formula on a web page). These percentages are different than I remembered. The main idea is that you need more than just black ink.

Cheers!

Kevin.

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kwisj
2015-11-05 19:24:45 UTC (over 9 years ago)
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any tricks for making black look really black

thanks for the repy will change the seetings and see how things pan out Cheers
Kwisj