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desjardins25
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December 30, 2021
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Unwanted border in print tiling

  • December 30, 2021
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Hello!  I'm trying to print a large image, to create a tracing remplate.  When I try tile printing, each individual tile prints with a heavy black border around the image.  I've tried printing Imageable Areas and Full Pages, and Visible/All Layers and the borders won't go away.  I've attached a photo of a sample print page.  The black border isn't in the image file, and the artboard is set to artwork bounds.  Any ideas?

 

I tried attaching the native .ai file to this message, and get an error "content type (application/postscript) does not match its file extension".  I'm saving directly from the current version of Illustrator (25.4.1)


Thanks very much for your help.

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Ton Frederiks
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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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December 31, 2021

I printed your file to a PostScript file and converted it to PDF.

The result looks fine, even including overlap to glue the pages together.

Here the result when imported (and with rearranged artboards) in Illustrator.

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desjardins25Author
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January 1, 2022

That's the issue.  The file *looks* fine in the print preview.  The borders only show up in the print.

Lukas Engqvist
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Lukas EngqvistCommunity Expert
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December 31, 2021

Are the shapes masked? Using path finder mix mode so that the shapes you are tiling are solid rather than masked should resolve the issue. 


Note that in illustrator it is possible to make overlapping artboards so that you could tile it manually by creating your own Art Boards and then exporting these. 

Here is attatched an expanded and merged copy (As PDF)

And a PDF ust to show how you can do artboards to tile manually

Lukas Engqvist
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Lukas EngqvistCommunity Expert
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December 31, 2021

Note that if you want to alt drag your artboards to create new artboards and don't want to copy the artcoard you need to make sure this icon is not checked in the control panel.

J E L
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J E LCommunity Expert
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December 30, 2021

I don't know much about tile printing, but when you have the document open in Illustrator and click “View” and “Show Print Tiling” to see how your Illustrator design is going to look when it is printed, do you see the borders then?

J E L
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J E LCommunity Expert
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December 30, 2021

Also, can you show us your printer settings? Are you specifying an overlap?

 

 

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desjardins25Author
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December 30, 2021

Thank you for the replies!  I've attached my print settings; I've also tried "tile full pages" and specified a .25 overlap; the border effect still appears.  I do *not* see the borders when using "view tiles".

 

The forum still won't let me post the native.  I've attached a pdf version using AI's standard settings.

 

Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
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December 30, 2021

I don't know what's causing the border, but try printing from Acrobat. You can attach a file to your post by clicking the gray button at the bottom left side of this panel (Drag & drop here), if it's still not working, save your file as a pdf, using the Illustrator default settings, then attach.

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