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Linda17
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March 26, 2010
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Printing background grey instead of white

  • March 26, 2010
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Hey everyone.  I'm just staring to work with Indesign and I'm having a printing issue.  I'm printing to a laser printer and my background is coming out pale grey instead of white. I've printed with the page set to 'paper' and to 'none' but, it's the same either way.  Even my graphic (a jpg with a white background) is coming out pale grey.  Clearly I'm missing something.  Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks,

Linda

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    Correct answer Danitica

    On the Printer dialog box, under Color Managment, I change Redndering intent from Absolute Colorimetric to PERCEPTUAL.

    This changes that light grey to white (no color printing) 

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    DaniticaCorrect answer
    Participant
    October 25, 2022

    On the Printer dialog box, under Color Managment, I change Redndering intent from Absolute Colorimetric to PERCEPTUAL.

    This changes that light grey to white (no color printing) 

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      miquelle_8662
      Participant
      September 10, 2024

      Thank you! I had the same problem and this was what finally fixed it! It's been driving me crazy for days!

      ereides
      ereides
      Participant
      May 19, 2021

      Hello,

       

      I had the same problem, solved it in the print dialog unchecking "Simulate Paper Color".

      have a nice day and infinite creativity to all.

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      Sams0101
      Participant
      February 4, 2021

      i had same problem.
      i solve this case via "All setting reset" in photoshop.

      patrick34238
      patrick34238
      Known Participant
      May 15, 2019

      Had the same problem : a light gray background when printing a CMYK-generated page on a BW laser printer.

      I solved the problem with these options in the printing dialog:

      -output = composite gray

      -transparency flattening = high resolution

      It's possible that only one of these options was needed. I didn't check

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      Animazzata
      Participant
      March 14, 2017

      Hello all,

      I'm having that problem too, and my printer settings are not set to Proof, which means I don't have the "Simulate Paper Color" option. My issue is printing from PS, not InDesign.

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        Afrench
        Participant
        September 19, 2017

        sAME

          Yerbol
          Yerbol
          Participant
          September 2, 2014

          Hi, I had same problem.

          Print->Colour Management -> Simulate Paper Colour - uncheck.

          It solved my problem.

          Peter Truskier
          Peter Truskier
          Participating Frequently
          March 26, 2010

          What is the setting of "Simulate Paper Color" checkbox in the "Options" section of the "Color Management" pane of the Print dialog box?

            Peter Spier
            Community Expert
            Peter SpierCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            March 26, 2010

            Are you saying blank areas of the page are coming off the printer with toner in them, or are you putting some sort of background behind the entire page? What sort of printer is this? What are your print settings? What version of InDesign and what OS?

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            Linda17Author
            Participant
            March 26, 2010

            Well, I'm clearly not getting enough sleep.  My printer was set to proof and even though I looked at my settings before printing, I didn't see that.  Thanks for asking the questions that made me take a closer look at what I was doing.

            Linda

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