Blurry White Boxes around PNG's, Tiffs and PSDs

[justsammiles]

Hey everyone,

This is something that has baffled me for ages.

I have added some company logos to a document in indesign and to make sure it is of printing quality, I make sure they are saved in photoshop at 300ppi then I saved them all out seperatley as PNG's and added them to my document.

Once I have exported the document to a PDF they look ok onscreen, but when I print them off I get blurry white boxes all around each logo and nowhere else on the document.

To combat this I tried saving the logos as psds and also as tiffs, but I am still getting the same problem.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Do I have to flatten the document or something? or is there a preferred file format that will avoid this from happening?

[Geоrge]

PNG is an evil (RGB color space). Don't use it.

>> To combat this I tried saving the logos as psds and also as tiffs, but I am still getting the same problem.

Are you sure? Give it here some examples through dropbox/yadisk/etc.

[Bill Silbert]

I am puzzled by the fact that your Print dialog box is showing Adobe PDF as your printer. The approved method to make a pdf out of InDesign is through File>Export>Adobe PDF (Print). If you are not making pdfs in the approved manner then that could be the source of your problems.

The other possible issue could be if there is any kind of transparency effect such as a drop shadow around your logos. Lower end ink jet and laser printers will sometimes have a problem rendering these effects when they are combined from either Illustrator or Photoshop with InDesign. In that case you may have to export a high quality pdf out of InDesign and open it in Photoshop and save it as a high resolution tiff or psd before printing.

[BobLevine]

Where did these logos come from? While there's nothing inherently wrong with PNG (or RGB graphics for print) if they were supplied to you in a vector format, you should use that.

[justsammiles]

Hey Bob,

They are taken from google images I didnt have the vector files for them.

[justsammiles]

Hey Guys,

I think you have both helped me, I steered away from PNGS used PSD's and chose file export print rather than file print.

I am getting a slight slight slight blurry line around some PSD's but I think it is the printers fault.

and in the words of Aaron Draplin if the print out is 95% alright that's not bad.

Cheers guys, If I didnt have this forum I don't know what I would do being the only guy in the whole office with Adobe CC.

[BobLevine]

If those PSDs contain vector elements you’re better off saving them as PDFs from Photoshop and placing those.