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shadows print with block
Hi, printing to a versacamm, my illustrations using shadows, seem to print a block almost the same colour as the background but not the same and is very noticeable. I often get confused with flattening layers and decomposition, what do I need to do, to have 3D effects and even RGB effects printout correctly from Illustrator CS10 to VersaCamm
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i get the same sort of thing when i have a haylow efect on text or pannels. It prints with a box around itslightly lighter then every thing around it. I normaly save the file as a jpg that sorts out all my problems. There wil be a setting for vector, bitmaps and some others you can change them from perceptual, to spot colour or relative colourmetric, putting them all on perceptiual can work as well. I print on a different printer but there should not be too much difference in the way the rip reads and sends to the printer.
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thanks for that Ill give it a try, do you know if it works for RGB effects too?, I’m guessing it does right, being a jpeg. I should also be able to gain on file size to which is always a plus.
Patrick
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Jpg should work for you, I use it all the time. Normaly open in photo shop and up the dpi and size to about half size and save on the highest setting prints as sharp as a vector and colour blends come out nicer, and some colours you will spend half hour trying to match will print up perfect first time.
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hi Luke
I don’t use illustrator, but in corel the same happens, it’s caused by the effect being rendered in RGB and the background being CMYK just convert the background to the latter and it works OK,
took me weeks to work that out when i started
hope it helps
merry christmas all
Paul
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ok that makes sence then, normaly i would make every thing cmyk, i did a print last week that looked like it was rgb, so i played with the colour %, put yellow up like 50%. Some times you have to change them. At least you worked it out took me a wile to work it out as well.
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