Printing errors - looks fine on pc, boxes shown incorrectly tinted

[Steffieg]

Hi All

I've just made the switch from Quark to Indesign. I've made my flyer including some psd images with a transparant background that have been slightly rotated.

Looks great on screen but when printed directly to my Xerox workcentre the 'transparent' backgrounds show as a light tint and some of the text boxes are creating a different tint (although they have no fill. Boxes with a drop shadow show an additional tinted box around the edge.

I have exported as a pdf but then printing from that is even more of a disaster!

Can anyone help? Thanks Steph

 

[apepp]

...the problem is to do with transparency flattening, export to PDFx1a preset from indesign and try printing from Acrobat again...

...PDFx1a will flatten the transparency and convert to CMYK.

...also refer to this artical for more insight:

http://indesignsecrets.com/eliminating-ydb-yucky-discolored-box-syndrome.php

andrew

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