igor
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Hi all, this is my first post here. This seems like a really great community and I hope someone would be able to help me with my problem.
I got prints from local digital print shop with colored text too dark by orders of magnitude. The weird thing is that line art (shapes) with exactly the same CMYK color values look perfect. Also the outlined text looks perfectly fine - the text was automatically outlined where covered by transparent image.
So line art, outlined text and raster images printed perfectly fine, while the text was absolutely too dark - blue became almost black. I then tried sending to printer one page of text covered with transparent image and that printed perfectly. Printer still insists that the problem is on my side in the way how I export. I use licensed InDesign CS6 with "high quality print" profile and PDF standard PDF/X3-2003, so all standard settings. All images are CMYK and all color values are CMYK - confirmed with preflight. Output intent profile is Fogra 39 which the print shop is using.
In the end printer exported all pages as JPGs and printed that - now the colors are fine but the text of course looks awful - aliased.
I can't find absolutely nothing wrong when checking with flattener and output preview in InDesign. Only clue I got was when using Output preview in Adobe Acrobat - when I select show "Line art" every outlined text shown was printed properly, when I select "Show text" every object displayed was of wrong color.
Thanks in advance for any insight on this matter.
Cheers, Igor
I got prints from local digital print shop with colored text too dark by orders of magnitude. The weird thing is that line art (shapes) with exactly the same CMYK color values look perfect. Also the outlined text looks perfectly fine - the text was automatically outlined where covered by transparent image.
So line art, outlined text and raster images printed perfectly fine, while the text was absolutely too dark - blue became almost black. I then tried sending to printer one page of text covered with transparent image and that printed perfectly. Printer still insists that the problem is on my side in the way how I export. I use licensed InDesign CS6 with "high quality print" profile and PDF standard PDF/X3-2003, so all standard settings. All images are CMYK and all color values are CMYK - confirmed with preflight. Output intent profile is Fogra 39 which the print shop is using.
In the end printer exported all pages as JPGs and printed that - now the colors are fine but the text of course looks awful - aliased.
I can't find absolutely nothing wrong when checking with flattener and output preview in InDesign. Only clue I got was when using Output preview in Adobe Acrobat - when I select show "Line art" every outlined text shown was printed properly, when I select "Show text" every object displayed was of wrong color.
Thanks in advance for any insight on this matter.
Cheers, Igor