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Image turns out VERY dark on film / looks fine in Acrobat/Indesign
Hi,
This is my first post here. It's unfortunate that it has to be a problem solving thread.
Right, I'll start from the beginning...
I'm designing my business cards in ID. They consist of type and an image. I'm printing 1c PMS....or at least I want to be able to.
After finishing the design, I preflighted it...seemed okay. Exported to PDF...looked fine on screen. When my printers exposed to film, the image was EXTREMELY dark, with only the very whitest highlights/edges of objects in the photo showing.
The image was prepared in PS...mode->grayscale. Saved as uncompressd TIFF. 300dpi. Imported into ID. All the type was set in ID black, from the swatches. All other swatch colours were deleted, apart from registration/paper/none. There were no weird empty frames under the pictures.
One odd thing that I did notice was that the seps preview showed a very slightly darker image when any one of CMY was selected at the same time as K. But without the black sep, all 3 showed nothing on screen. There was no colour there, but somehow it was affecting the preview if any of them were ticked. It was all then exported to PDF using high quality setting. The printers can't understand why it's happening.
Can anyone help with this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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