Screening issues...

[freezertroll]

Ok, this one has me stumped at the moment.

I have a file that was provided as a PDF from a customer. It is for a T-Shirt. It is one separation and is a solid. We've used PDF's from this client many times. (The designer actually used to work here with us, so I know it isn't his file that's doing this from working with him and another test I did.)

Basically when I print this file from InDesign CS2 (4.0.2) to our RIP, I get a screened output instead of a solid. It is set up to print at 42lpi at 45 degrees.

I tried sending the file using several setups we have for different line screens and page sizes for some of the other things we do with film and get the same screening thing for every one of them.

I tried printing the same PDF file from Quark 6.5 and got a solid on the RIP (the other test mentioned above)

Any ideas why this is happening and where do I look for settings on this?
Thanks
Jeremy

[seetomtype]

Do you have any Color Management enabled in your print
dialog box?

[freezertroll]

Originally Posted by seetomtype

Do you have any Color Management enabled in your print
dialog box?

The only option there is "Let InDesign determine colors"

And it's set to the document's color profile which is basically no profile at all.

It's strange because I've output this type of job for this client using the same setup within the last two weeks with no problems whatsoever. Nothing has changed to my knowledge, it's just goofy.

I already output the job using quark for the customer, but I really want to figure this out. Irritating you know?

Jeremy

[freezertroll]

Found a work around. Or maybe it was the problem all along.

In the print dialogue box, under the output options there is a setting where you set up how your separations go to the RIP. One is Composite Gray, one is Composite CMYK, etc. I changed it from Composite Gray to Leave Unchanged and got the desired results.

Pretty bizarre. I know that I've been using the composite gray option since day one for black only seps and had no problems.

Thanks for the help.

Hope this helps someone else down the road as well.

jeremy

[Joe]

Acrobat does the same thing if you try to print "Composite Gray". It must be an Adobe thing.

[steve2112]

when i do composite grey from my man idcs2 to any machine it puts dots in all and never has a full black solid. It sucks because it the default and if i forget to change it then i have to redo it. That and my imagesetter which should overide my dpi settings from any program doesn't and i have to change it to the right dpi every time i print to it. thats annoying to

steve