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Anonymous
September 9, 2012
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PDFs printing wrong colours

  • September 9, 2012
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Hi there

Hoping someone can help me.  I have a cd cover going to print on Monday, ive designed it in photoshop and illustrator cs5.  It looks fine on screen and prints out fine from these programs but when i pdf it the colours go so dark you can barely make it out.  Pdf looks fine on screen, its only when i print.  Theres no way i can send it when its printing out like this!  I have tried pdfing from illustrator and photoshop and the colours print as badly on both. I think this is the first time i have printed pdf from CS5.  I have been up all night trying to work out whats going on.  Ive tried printing out old pdf files created in CS3 and they are printing ok.  Please could someone give me some advice, im going crazy!

Thanks

Lisa

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    Anonymous
    September 9, 2012

    Is it possible my deskjet is too old and cant handle the new colour profiles of cs5?  Although that doesnt explain why it prints colours fine from illustrator and photoshop. 

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    gator soup
    Inspiring
    September 9, 2012

    if the PDF is tagged with an embeddedICC profie and displays correctly in Acrobat, most likely your PDF Source Profile is not being CONVERTED to the CORRECT SPECIFIC Print Profile (for your printer/paper/ink combination)

    You need to look at where Acrobat sets up Source Profile> Print Profile

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    gator soup
    Inspiring
    September 9, 2012

    PS

    if you are caught on a deadline and can't figure Acrobat printing out, not to worry, do your proofing in Photoshop

    as long as you have a 'calibrated' monitor, Photoshop will display color correctly (using the correct Source Profile) and "Soft Proof" your printer's recommended Printer Profile to doublecheck any gamut issues

    just be sure to embed ICC profiles in your documents and make sure your people downstream use your embedded profile

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