Giverly of Dunbar Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Does anyone have experience of sublimating via Affinity Designer 2 on an iPad? I’m trying to print tiles to go with a wallpaper I designed. The wallpaper uses the same hex code colours, so they need to match. The wallpaper printed just as expected from the screen colours (but via Contrado, not printing at home). I have printed tiles before using this Epson ET-2720 printer, but using photoshop on a pc and I can’t remember what I did for colour settings. I downloaded a couple of ICC profiles which should be compatible with my printer but they turn the screen pink and the palette more red, and they also sublimate too red (so it’s not correcting a printer bias). The standard srgb profile was better but not right 🤷🏻♀️ Apple RGB is closest but again too different against the wallpaper I’ve tried to adjust the colours rather than the ICC eg CMYK/RGB, more blue, more cyan, less red, 95% opacity etc etc but haven’t found the solution this way. We’ve done various things on the printer eg power clean, nozzle check, changed ink. It can test print the colours ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted January 28 Staff Share Posted January 28 Are you using Apple AirPrint or are you using your Epson printer app, if you export as a PDF then print this are the colours correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamz Dezignz, LLC Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 Which sublimation paper and sublimation ink are you using? I use Hiipoo Ink and ASub.... if you use this combination please reply and I will try to give you a detailed explanation of what worked for me. If any other ink or paper, it may not work the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giverly of Dunbar Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 Thanks for replying @DWright we’ve tried different options including uninstalling the printer app and using a different one, reinstalling the standard Epson one, printing without any printer app (so presumably AirPrint?). We haven’t tried pdf but have printed png via photoshop on a PC and an android phone. Would pdf format be better? Photoshop is definitely better. It’s now slightly brown/red rather than definitely red, but still too different from the wallpaper. @Tamz Dezignz, LLC no that’s not our combination but we have printed tiles successfully with this combination before- same printer, ink and paper (not literally the same ink, we’ve bought new). It’s f35 jet stream paper and photo plus ink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giverly of Dunbar Posted January 29 Author Share Posted January 29 Printing as png from Photoshop it looks like this. Perhaps I just need to do a manual adjustment at this point? Lighter and less red? NB we’re using coasters to test - once the colours are right it’s for 8x10” ceramic tiles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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