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February 9, 2017
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I am using an older version of Photoshop (6.0) and recently every file I print gets printed with a very light yellow background. It covers the entire page except for a small borer around the edge of the paper. This happens on new files I create and on old files that were created a long time in the past. I have searched every aspect of Photoshop I can find to see if I have accidentally turn on a screen or background that I could turn off, but I have found nothing so far. It is really messing up some of the graphics that I have to print. Everything comes out with a yellow cast, albeit a light, pale yellow. I need help if anyone that is better acquainted with the software than I.

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Correct answer Mohit Goyal

Hi skyymann,

Please try and reset Photoshop preferences for taking everything back to default. You need to move the Photoshop.prefs file to the desktop and launch Photoshop.

Refer the below link for finding the Photoshop preference file.

Photoshop CS6 preference file functions, names, locations

Regards,

Mohit

NB, colourmanagement

Community Expert

Mrs. Clark When printing - are you using "Photoshop Manages Color" and selecting the correct paper profile? (and media setting) that’s a better way than "printer manages color" generally.

Try this, convert a copy the document you are having issues with to the printer colour space. [Edit /convert to profile (generally select Relative Colorimetric Rendering** here)]

Now use the eyedropper to sample the area that prints yellow when it should not - it is yellow after conversion and not before?

If it now has the tint, that would suggest an ICC profile issue.

If you want to print a known test-image you can download this one - the greyscale areas definitely have no yellow tint. https://www.colourmanagement.net/downloads/CMnet_Pixl_AdobeRGB_testimage05.zip

**If you are perhaps making original files in a CMYK colourspace and you select "Absolute Colorimetric" rendering intent when printing, this can superimpose a slight tint over image and border - its intentional and designed to simulate printing press paper colour.

I hope this helps
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Mrs. Clark

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This issue is happening to me in Photoshop 2021...I have gone to preferences and reset them...I am searching for the Photoshop.prefs file and I see a 2020 but not a 2021...should I move the 2020 to my desktop and see if that works?

NB, colourmanagement

Community Expert

More on resetting preferences:

https://t.co/ulJI7cGn1G
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/preferences.html
You may want to backup your settings beforehand:
https://t.co/4dX7gkr36D
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/photoshop/using/preset-migration.html

It may be time to reinstall photoshop. Use the Adobe CC cleaner tool to remove all traces first.

Uninstall photoshop BUT make sure to choose the option “Yes, remove app preference”.

Once that process finishes, start the installation process and look into the “Advanced Options”. Uncheck “Import previous settings and preferences” and choose to “Remove old versions”.

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2405286

I hope this helps
neil barstow, colourmanagement net :: adobe forum volunteer
google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management
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Per Berntsen

Community Expert

Are you using an Epson printer with the Advanced B&W setting?

It has an option called Highlight Point Shift, which will apply a very light gray to the white areas of the image to minimize gloss differential. It can be applied to just the image area, or the whole sheet.

It's possible that other printers have this feature too.

cmgap

Community Expert

Does this only happen in Photoshop?

davescm

Community Expert

Hi

There are a few things you can check.

1. Make a new image in the sRGB colour space with White - Black and 50% Grey areas.

2. Look at those areas with the eye dropper tool. Does this show that the area is actually neutral i.e. Red = Green = Blue. Sometimes if the screen is bad then we can make an image with a colour cast to compensate for a badly calibrated screen. Assuming they really are neutral.

3. Check your printer settings - are they set up to use the printer and paper combination that you are using. If there is a printer profile set - is it the correct one for your paper.

4. Print the image

If that does not get you to the problem can you post a screenshot of :

a. The Photo shop colour settings panel

b. The Photoshop printer settings panel

c. The print settings (i.e the Epson/Canon etc print dialogue)

Dave

Randy Hufford

Community Expert

What do you mean everything you print please be more specific? The yellow does not show up on screen only when printing? Mac or PC what version os and PS? What printer, what printer driver? Maybe a setting in printer driver is doing this?

skyymannAuthor

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To: Randy Hufford

The yellow never appears on the screen (I guess you mean the monitor). It only shows up on the printed paper. Only Mohit Goyal gave me an answer that could be followed and worked. I don't know how much more specific you wanted me to be.

To Everyone Else:

Thanks for trying. BTW, the printer had nothing to do with anything. The computer OS had nothing to do with it or being a Mac or PC. It was a Photoshop problem. I thought I said that and came to a Photoshop forum to seek help.

D Fosse

Community Expert

skyymann: Resetting preferences is a wipe-out option when you have no idea what the problem is. Sometimes it works, but you are no closer to knowing what the actual problem was. It just returns the application to factory state - but you also lose all your custom settings and assets (brushes, actions and so on).

If you had given more detailed information it could have been possible to pinpoint the exact problem. That's how much more specific people wanted you to be.

gener7

Community Expert

Don't forget to update to 6.0.1

Adobe - Photoshop : For Windows : Adobe Photoshop 6.0.1 Update

Mohit Goyal

Correct answer

Community Manager

Hi skyymann,

Please try and reset Photoshop preferences for taking everything back to default. You need to move the Photoshop.prefs file to the desktop and launch Photoshop.

Refer the below link for finding the Photoshop preference file.

Photoshop CS6 preference file functions, names, locations

Regards,

Mohit

skyymannAuthor

Participant

To Mohit Goyal:

Hey thanks. I did the keyboard version of the preference reset and the Yellow is gone. Everyone else seemed way off the mark.

Anyway, thanks.

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