Printing Gradients InDesign
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- TwoTimesDaily
Whenever I print gradients in InDesign it splits them up and forms strange white spaces all over the place.
Anyone have a solution ?
- jaylarson0
no, but I am having a similar problem when creating a pdf. it looks fine on my machine, but when I print it, or see it on another computer, it looks fugly... a person here converetd my spot/pantone colors to process and this helped some. but I am still having problems.
anyone?
- gramme0
if it's an illu or InDesign gradient, bring it into photoshop & add a bit of noise. Prollem solved.
The reason it looks bad on other monitors might be the # of colors their screen is set to. Savvy?
- jaylarson0
our monitors have the same colors.... thanks tho...
- jaylarson0
thanks gramme. the problems was a bad pds file. so i convereted the paths to illy and imported the ai file into indesign and viola swamp, things work.
thanks again.
- gramme0
nema problema, comrade.
- version30
adding more steps to your gradient helps solve this as well
- honest0
what printer are you using and is your gradient made as vector or photoshop?
When printing, I add noise to photoshopped gradients to give the dot grain something to render to combat moiré break-up – depending on the machine they are using. Nowadays all standard inkjets use stochastic screening which is why they produce finer art prints over quick laser toner based machines.
- gramme0
is there an echo in here?
- gramme0
echo
- honest0
hello?
echo
gramme
(Aug 31 06, 14:59)
- jaylarson0
echo. thanks for the links, info, and comarawkerie. self-reinforcing fo' shizzle.