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kaano85189122
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December 14, 2018
Question

I have colors printed little bit darker on Acrobat but When I print from illustrator it prints fine.

  • December 14, 2018
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Hello All,

This issue popped up recently and it is very annoying. When I print while using illustrator it prints fine.

When I exported pdf and I opened with acrobat, then I hit print and colors get little darker.

I tried different printing settings

High Quality print,

Illustrator default.

and played with couple colors options but result is same.

I tried exported ps file and distill it with default printing options and created pdf and result is same.

Everything fine inside the program but when I export and print pdf it is broken.

I used same default compatibility, Acrobat 6 (pdf 1.5) each time. Do you think it might be related with pdf version ?

I create and send design to client as a pdf so printing normally from pdf is important.

Thanks in advanced.

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    Monika Gause
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    December 23, 2018

    kaano85189122  schrieb

    and played with couple colors options 

    Do you know how color management works?

    The details here would be interesting.

    Also what kind of printer this is. And which options you select when printing.

    What kind of colors are they? process or spot colors?

    Are they applied to text? To graphics? inside a placed image?

    When you open the PDF in Acrobat, do the color values change? Please use the Prepress preview to check that.

    You know that the output on an offset press might vary again, don't you?

    kaano85189122
    Participating Frequently
    December 26, 2018

    Hi Monika Gause,

    I don't know how exactly color management works, just trying to figure them out.

    As printer it won't go offset print, they just print it with their digital printing machine. Like many printers on offices etc.

    I double checked the colors and here is the screenshot, I believe they are processed CMYK.

    I also checked images and made all of them CMYK mode but problem happened again.

    I didn't know the prepress options inside Acrobat, I will go and check color codes there, thanks for that.

    Also for Color options I tried these settings and tried No conversion

    and this,

    Thanks for help

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 26, 2018

    Before you have found out if the values actually changed, it doesn't make sense to continue troubleshooting this.

    jane-e
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 23, 2018

    kaano85189122  wrote

    Discussion moved from Creating PDFs to Illustrator

    kaano85189122
    Participating Frequently
    December 19, 2018

    No response :/

    gary_sc
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 19, 2018

    Hi Kaano,

    How are you generating the PDF?

    kaano85189122
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    December 20, 2018

    I go save as pdf, then I use these settings (Attached Screenshot)