usern4a Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 In AffinityPhoto, I select 100% white to fill areas to erase unwanted previously drawn things, and when printing it comes out as off-white (seen as white with sparsely dithered light gray dots) I just want 100% white to print as 100% white! When nothing is printed to a background area, it does print as 100% white so I know it's possible. Can someone please help me find a fix for this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfriedberg Posted February 10, 2021 Share Posted February 10, 2021 Can you post a sample document that has this problem, so people here can look at it closely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usern4a Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 I would be happy to "erase the area to make it transparent". How can I do this? The erased area needs to be precise (I used a rectangle with dimensions for that purpose). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usern4a Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 I just noticed this problem exists ONLY if I print my file (created from scratch in Affinity Photo) directly onto the printer. If I output it as a jpg and then load the jpg file to Affinity Photo and print it, or print it by itself, then there is NO problem (white is 100% white). I'll include a .afphoto file showing the problem, and the .jpg which does not. test.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usern4a Posted February 10, 2021 Author Share Posted February 10, 2021 Also, I did find out how to draw text and have the area filling the draw box be a solid white (which is great for my purpose of erasing unwanted stuff), so I don't have to add another white rectangle fill to do it. And when I did this I had the same problem as mentioned with the drawn white printing (without being saved to jpg) as off-white. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
usern4a Posted February 11, 2021 Author Share Posted February 11, 2021 I'm making a lens test chart, with just pure black & white lines on the white paper. I wanted to try a different way to create it and so I started over from scratch. In the second try it now is printing pure white to the paper even after I use a "fill with white" to erase previously drawn areas. I don't know what changed, as I don't know how to change anything like that. But just by starting over with a new file and using the same style work (erase with "rectangle fill with white") I am no longer having this problem. So I've given up on what the problem was with the first pass. I don't even want to load the previous file that had the problem since I don't think I can 100% guarantee that it won't cause the problem to start occurring again. But I do thank you all for trying to help me figure this out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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