PDF colors are off (duller) when printing compared to other users

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January 11, 2019
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When printing a PDF the color is off.

It appears a completely different shade, much duller than when someone else prints.

We haven't done any customization to the settings. Tried "print as image" in advanced, but that doesn't help.

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Abambo

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When colours change against other dudes that are printing the same PDF, I would look into the printers colour settings (colour management).

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Anonymous

Are you talking about color management in Acrobat, or in the printer's own settings?

Abambo

Community Expert

There are no settings in Acrobat that change the colour appearance for viewing or printing. But a PDF file may have a profile attached and that profile gets interpreted during viewing (in relation with the screen's colour management) and printing (in relation with the printer's colour management). To get "correct" colours, it is clear that your PDF file needs to have a correct profile attached. But with the same PDF on 2 machines, the only variable are settings with the printer.

If you have there different settings, the colour will be rendered differently: