Printing with 'blue dots'

Hi @AndreeaCi , Is there a reason for converting your InDesign doc to the Japan Color 2001 Coated CMYK profile? That CMYK profile would be for an offset press, not a composite inkjet printer.

Inkjet printers almost always use RGB drivers—they expect the color to be RGB and the conversion to the printer output space is handled by the driver software’s media profile, which you choose in the Printer... dialog. If you want to export a PDF and print from Acrobat, try exporting to document RGB and see if that helps:

The conversion into the printer’s output space is typically handled by the media type in Print Settings—these are ICC color output profiles:

You might benefit from using Levels or Curves adjustments to "whiten" your background.

In Photoshop, a quick way is to use Levels:

Open the Levels adjustmnet and then select the white eye dropper and click somewhere in your image background. This will create a new white point that should get rid of the color cast in your background. see attached. To be sure, you can pull the white slider on the histogram over to the left a bit more.

This adjustmemt will also change the overall histogram a bit, so you can pull the middle grey slider in the center over a touch to keep your midtones where they were.

This is normal for an inkjet printer. Inkjets print using a scatter pattern of dots, which are all the exact same size, so when you have a light tint, like you have near the white areas, only a few dots here and there will be used, so you tend to "see" them more. In the darker areas there are just more dots packed closer together so they are less obvious. It also depends on what kind of paper you are printing on. These tiny dots on an uncoated text stock will "bleed" a little and end up being larger than if you printed on  quality coated paper.

In the end, though, this is a limitation of your printer. It has nothing to do whether your file is vector or image-based. Many inkjets have quality settings (e.g. there may be a higher quality setting like "Fine" in your print driver). These will take longer to print as they will use smaller dots per area. Look into your driver settings!

well, I see the dots only on the images, and they participate in color creating. They are OK. Do you mean any other dots?