tom_tav Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Hello! Run into a little problem: Affinity Designer 1.7.2 OSX Situation: 1 Layer with rectangle as background color, CMYK 0,87,100,0, opacy 100% 1 Layer with big Text (589.4 pt), color CMYK 0,87,100,0, opacy 100% Text with outline enabled, color BLACK, opacy 100%, Radius 33px On the screen it looks correct. When i print it the Text (inside) has a slightly different color. Why??? I did use the same color for background, foreground, whatever, all via color picker. I checked the values. EDIT: I print on a Epson 7600 w. color profile. And i print just an Artboard for testing, not the full document. When i print as pdf the rgb values are the same in Preview. But the produced pdf file is just grayscale when i print it or open it in another program.... Edited February 3, 2021 by tom_tav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_tav Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) UPDATE: The above behaviour happens only when you select a part of the drawing with the Artboard Tool and print it. On a full scale print it is ok. So my next question is: How to print just a part of the drawing (as quality /color preview for 2 x 1 meter prints) ? Edited February 3, 2021 by tom_tav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarKeegan Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I do not miss printing issues, hope you find a solution though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazmondo77 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 You could try Pdf then print from Acrobat reader - worth a go? - I find Preview is just as bad as Affinity for print Quote Mac Pro Cheese-grater (Early 2009) 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon 48 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC Ram, Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 8GB GDDR5, Ugee 19" Graphics Tablet Monitor Triple boot via OCLP 1.4.3 - Mac OS Monterey 12.7.3, Sonoma 14.1.1 and Mojave 10.14.6 Affinity Publisher, Designer and Photo 1.10.5 - 2.4.0 Betas 2.5.0(2430) www.bingercreative.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_tav Posted February 3, 2021 Author Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) I dont need PDF, it was just for testing. Print via Artboard as PDF seems to create a buggy pdf definition, it includes a RGB color profile but the image definition is grayscale. Illustrator doesnt complain, but some other programs do. Like written above it seems to be a bug with the Artboard tool. My Q is now: How can i print (not pdf) just a part (selection) of my drawing? Edited February 3, 2021 by tom_tav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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