About Alyn Expertise 12 years experience with art for screen printing. can answer questions specifically geared toward color seperations, camera ready artwork, and how to translate your artwork for screenprinting. can respond to problems regarding vector vs. bitmap artwork as well as gradients and process.
Expert: Alyn Date: 10/26/2006 Subject: printing to PDF colors get washed out
Question Hi. Whenever I print to PDF, the colors in the resulting PDF file are washed out. I've tried tinkering with all the color management options but nothing changes the output.
It's like Freehand desaturates or shifts the colors when printing to PDF...
I also tinkered with all of my Distiller settings and nothing changes.
I'm using Freehand 9 and Acrobat Distiller 6. Any ideas??
Thanks!
Answer i make my clients supply art in ai, eps or freehand if they have it, otherwise they have to supply in whatever native file format they created their image in be it photoshop, photopaint, microsoft word; so that i don't ever have to deal with this issue. i also supply high res jpg for approval because i can adjust the color in photoshop to be pretty accurate and everyone on e-mail has a browser that opens jpgs. i'm sorry, but so many applications offer pdf as an export function that i have found it is simply not worth the hassle. so i don't have any answers other than over the years i have found the pdf an inferior option for art files.
