Packaged PDF not printing right.

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 13, 2022
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Building an Ad and ran into an issue.
All images are CMYK. Intent for file is set to Print. Process color.

If I print directly from the file, It prints fine.
Yet if I package it or export it to a high-quality print PDF. No color conversion.

PDF prints come out completely wrong.

Skin tones are more orange. Yellows are pink. Black stroke lines become blue.

All the other ads I've worked on never gave me such issues. Is there something I am missing?

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Why are all images converted? Leave them in RGB.

If the add shall be placed in another file it should be PDF/X-4.

Bill Silbert

Community Expert

You did not mention whether the color appears correct in the PDF when it is viewed onscreen rather than printed. If it does look OK onscreen then make sure that for printing you first make sure that the Color Settings (accessed through Edit>Color Settings in both Photoshop and InDesign—first and second pictures below) match one another before exporting the PDF. Then in Acrobat when you go to print the PDF click on the "Advanced" button in the Print dialog window to access the Advanced Print Settings (picture on the right below). In that window make sure that the Color Profile Setting matches the settings from InDesign and Photoshop.

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Robert GiedeAuthor

Participant

Turns out it was a transparency issue that I was able to resolve when exporting the file to a PDF by flattening the transparency.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Only the last output in a workflow should flatten transparency, not PDFs for placing in other files.

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Robert GiedeAuthor

Participant

Attached below are the proofs with the wrong colors alongside screenshots of the file on screen. I even checked the printer and none of our inks are low. I even went as far as making sure the files were set to u.s. webcoated swop v2 everywhere I could.

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Inspiring

Looks like a printer calibration issue. Can't tell without knowing your RIP environment and printer.

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