About Michael Jahn Expertise Any and all questions related to creating and modifying PDF files for use in prepress and printing environments.
Experience After being a director of a prepress company, I was involved in development and was product manager to several prepress products related to PDF creation, production and submission to high end printing environments.
Organizations PODi, IPA, Acrobat Users Group, (and was technical director of SGAUA - the Scitex Graphic Arts User Association - what we used to call the Floor Top Publishing systems back in the 80's!
Education/Credentials BS in Biomedical communications, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
Awards and Honors AGFA's PDF Evangelist - was honored to receive, of behalf of AGFA, an award for shipping the 1st PostScript 3 RIP (AGFA Taipan) from Adobe
Past/Present Clients I have been a consultant to many developers. SGAUA (Scitex), 4-Sight, AGFA, Enfocus, Pantone, and currently, ELAN GMK
Question I am using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0 on Microsoft Windows XP and printing to an HP 3210 Photosmart Printer. Whenever I print a .pdf to this printer it prints in only black and white and the graphics come out completely shaded in and pixilated. This doesn't not happen with any other documents or on any other machine connected to this printer. I restarted acrobat, my computer and reinstalled the printer drivers. Anything I'm missing?
Answer If I understand you correctly, you have on single PDF that is not printing the color properly, while most any other PDF is printing the color properly ? It may be that the person who created this PDF used some compression scheme that the RIP in the HP can interpret properly - try opening the PDF in Acrobat, go under the file menu, select 'Reduce File Size' - step it back to Acrobat 7 or even 6, then save and try printing it again. Let Acrobat convert the document to something that old printer can perhaps understand.
