Blend modes do not behave the same way across different documents

Question

Hi all!

In one Illustrator document, I have a group of several elements.
One element, a black-and-white texture image (placed as a linked file), uses the Screen blend mode and is placed on top of a group of blue lines.
It looks like this:

All is fine and well, until I want to copy this group of elements to another opened Illustrator document. Then it suddenly looks like this:

Obviously this is not what I want.
I've tried copying the group back and forth between the two documents. It consistently behaves correctly in the first document, but gets messed up in the second document.
So I'm suspecting there is some setting in the second document that messes this up... but what?

Some other info:
- I work in Adobe Illustrator CC 2020 - 24.0.1 (64-bit).
- The documents are both set in RGB mode.
- I've tried resetting preferences, this did not work.
- Absolutely no changes are made to the elements before or after copying and pasting them.

Does anyone know or have a guess as to what causes this strange behaviour?

Cheers,
Astrid

Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

Is there background artwork in one of the documents but not in the other one?

Ton Frederiks · Answer

Astrid, can you check if the screen mode is applied to the layer?

Click on the layer that contains the texture image and on the circle to the right of the layer name.

Check in the Appearance panel if the screen mode is applied to the layer.

If so, set it to Normal. Deselect everything, select the texture and apply the Screen mode to the texture.

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