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I am not great with using Illustrator and cannot work out why a coloured background always prints on my Illustrator documents when it looks white on screen.
I have tried searching for solutions but can find very few, none of which work. I have also tried exporting to PNG and printing and although this resolves the coloured background issue, the quality of the image drops significantly.
I have posted a couple of images to illustrate the problem.
Please can someone help?
Thank you.
Monika pointed a couple of times to this thread about a similar problem, maybe that helps:
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I am not great with using Illustrator and cannot work out why a coloured background always prints on my Illustrator documents when it looks white on screen.
I have tried searching for solutions but can find very few, none of which work. I have also tried exporting to PNG and printing and although this resolves the coloured background issue, the quality of the image drops significantly.
I have posted a couple of images to illustrate the problem.
Please can someone help?
Thank you.
Monika pointed a couple of times to this thread about a similar problem, maybe that helps:
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Moving to the Illustrator forum from Using the Community
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Did you put a white object in the background?
What do you see in Illustrator when you turn on View > Show Transparency Grid?
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Hi Ton.
Thank you for your reply.
I havent put a white object in the background and after showing the transparency grid this is the view -
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Are you printing directly from Illustrator?
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Apologies Doug I have only just seen your message.
Yes I am printing direct from Illustrator.
I did also save the file as a PNG to my desktop and that printed OK without the white background but the quality was very poor.
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Monika pointed a couple of times to this thread about a similar problem, maybe that helps:
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Hi Ton
Sorry I've been out of town for a couple of days.
That last thread has really helped and problem now solved!
Many thanks for all the replies and help!
Kind regards
Elizabeth
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Good to hear that helped.
But the credit goes to Monika Gause