diane king

I'm doing a Christmas catalog where the blurb text has a gradient gold applied to the product title and the price. All the rest of the text is supposed to be white (paper), and appears that way on the screen. But when I print it, most, but not all, of the blurbs print all in the gradient gold instead of the white. The background is a gradient red image created in Illustrator and placed as an AI file. I've placed all the text frames on a layer above all other objects and checked for any effects or transparency applied to them (and there are none). I'm scratching my head in puzzlement on this one. Anyone have any ideas?

CS3 OS 10.4.11 printing to a Xerox 252 with a Fiery server.

jeffrey_smith

My experience with Fiery Rips and transparency or special effects as you've described has not been good. A few workarounds is to create a PDF, and from Acrobat, under Advanced Print Setup, Print as image. Another workaround is to create a PDF v4 using a transparency flattener preset that forces art to raster.

eric_

Assuming your document looks right while in Overprint Preview mode, there's 3 things to try:
- Try the Simulate Overprint checkbox in the Print dialog.

- Try the Colorwise "Composite Overprint" checkbox in the Print button inside the Print dialog (if your Fiery driver has that option).

- Create a 300dpi (or whatever your final dpi is on your printer) raster-only Transparency Flattener preset and use that from the Print dialog. This would be the "nuke it from orbit" approach as there is no postscript to confuse the printer anymore, just a bitmap sent from ID.

diane king

Simulate Overprint didn't work, though the file looks fine with Overprint Preview on.

I exported 2 pages to a layered PDF and that printed fine. That's a time consuming workaround so I'll try Eric's other suggestions.

richard_sohanchyk

What's so consuming about exporting as a layered PDF? Doesn't it take same amount of time as exporting a one layer PDF?

diane king

When all I want to do is print a few pages for an editor, exporting a PDF and printing that is an extra couple steps, which, when you include the spooling time, is a time consuming work around.

vern_klukas

Time for an Applescript, Diane.

Yours
Vern

diane king

Time for an Applescript, Diane.


Easy for you to say.

diane king

Well, it doesn't print correctly from Acrobat either. I had tested two pages of 14, and they came out of the printer correct, but when I print the full thing, it's all messed up again. Looks right on the screen. This is very confusing.