The wierdest thing happened recently when I put my lam under my cloth when I was laminating a board. I layed it up like normal, glassed like normal and went on my merry little way. Later that night when I checked on my work, there was a yellow color surrounding all the ink on my lam. I was bummed. Can anyone tell me what’s happened? Any ways to fix it? Thanks
Kevin
Howzit Kevin, Ink jet lam right, have had the same thing happen. The thing is it only bleeds the yellow and only to the edge of the paper, so cut the paper as close as possible to the design. You can also spray some clear acrylic over the lam, that helps sometimes. The weird thing is they only bleed the yellow, drove me nuts for a while until I figured out the cutting trick.Aloha,Kokua
Howzit Kokua,
I use an HP 8500. Pretty bg hi-tech thing here at my advertsiing Agency where I work. Every color is pretty much perfect except for reds and oranges. It’s odd that I don’t have a problem with yellow. Must be in the ink I spose.
Drew
Howzit drew, I think it may have something to do with the inks mixing to make other colors. With my Epson I can watch as it lays down one color then another color over that when printing. It could be that the first color isn't drying enough before the second color is added. But the real question is why only yellow bleeds. Aloha,Kokua
hmmmm, yeah no real answers from me. Only thing I can think to do is try switching brands of ink. Or go witha different color. I dunno.
Drew
Howzit drew, I don't think Kevin is using an Epson like me so ink brand or printer brand are the problem. As for changing colors that isn't really an option since yellow is a primary color and is used in making many other colors when printing. Aloha,Kokua
I know that many inkjet printers from HP (and possibly others) do something called “underprinting” where they print color ink under the black. The color ink reacts with the black to improve drytime. Some of these printers have an option to turn off that feature. In other cases, the feature is only used in “Best” mode. Try turning off underprinting or use “normal” mode and things may improve. Since the color inks are typically dye based, they are far more prone to bleed than the pigment K.
Matt
Howzit tigermeat, I never use the best when printing, in fact I’ve found that using the text setting is best. My Epson doesn’t use dye inks they are archival which is UV resistant. What I see when printing is not a black color but yellow then prints blue over it to make green.Aloha,Kokua
Great info Kokua,
Been having exactly this problem myself with yellow and i to have an epsom printer. So cutting is the way forward, i’ll try that next time. However that said on a sunset logo the yellow bleeding can really merge the colours for a nice effect.
KS