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jsbillings
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January 30, 2020
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Color Green is Printing Blue

  • January 30, 2020
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I have recently installed adobes suite of tools on a new MacBook Pro. Anytime I print out of Illustrator, Photoshop, or Acrobat the sage color greens print blue. I have recalibrated my printer... It happens when I only print out of abobes products... Any Suggestions?

 

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Bob_Hallam
Bob_Hallam
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March 11, 2020

Make sure you have an embedded profile in your Adobe Document.  Make sure your color settings are the same across all your Adobe applications by saving your standard color settings and syncing those in Bridge. If by "recalibrated" you mean ICC profiled.  Use your printer profile in those color settings and convert your document to that profile before sending it to the printer.  Overprint colors (Red's Greens, Blues) are colors that can vary most on some printers.   

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Dov Isaacs
Dov Isaacs
Legend
January 30, 2020

Without knowing specifics (sage color greens is not a color specification) we really can't help. Exactly what color space is the color (RGB, CMYK, LAB and if CMYK or RGB, what ICC color profile is associated with the color)? What type of printer are you using – model, PDL (printer description language such as PCL, PostScript, proprietary)? Settings used for printing? Maybe you can even post a sample document (preferably PDF) that shows this problem!

 

            - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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