Printing issues with A-Publisher

[mrlennon]

Good Morning,

I have this issue with Publisher when I print my design, I have never had this happen in the past.  The background rectangle of my inserted image bleeds through.  Pictures will best describe the issue, I attached some pics and my Pub file.

Thanks in advanced

 

Matt

cover-test.afpub

[thomaso]

Without opening your .afpub (V2) the screenshots seem to indicate the transparency and/or blend modes as the culprit. You could try to rasterize the involved layers before printing or to export as PDF/X-1 and print that. If blend modes or adjustments are involved also the document's colour space may matter (RGB vs. CMYK).

[mrlennon]

Ok, I tried the rasterizing, but it made it worse.  I exported it as a pdf, the pdf looks good on the screen but has the same print issue.   Not versed enough in afpub to understand the bleed and color adjustments.  

 

Thx

 

matt

[carl123]

Have you run a self-test on the printer or a different test image sent to print?

[mrlennon]

All the printer test i could find say its of.

 

I messed around with the options on the export for pdf.  And got the pdf to export and the  print properly.  But Publisher will not print directly properly.  And I do not know how to translate the settings of the export preset.  To publishers printer settings.

[mrlennon]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Without opening your .afpub (V2) the screenshots seem to indicate the transparency and/or blend modes as the culprit. You could try to rasterize the involved layers before printing or to export as PDF/X-1 and print that. If blend modes or adjustments are involved also the document's colour space may matter (RGB vs. CMYK).

The pdf and export iptions worked.  Now just figuring out how to get oublisher to print directly properly.

[thomaso]

11 hours ago, mrlennon said:

I exported it as a pdf, the pdf looks good on the screen but has the same print issue. 

10 hours ago, mrlennon said:

I messed around with the options on the export for pdf.  And got the pdf to export and the  print properly. 

10 hours ago, mrlennon said:

The pdf and export iptions worked.  Now just figuring out how to get oublisher to print directly properly.

What "messed" export option details did you use for the PDF that printed properly?

Files (saved or exported data) are different from displaying them on a screen and from printing them on paper. You can't simply apply identical settings for export and print, they are different processes. (e.g. screens use RGB for display, printers use CMYK inks, for prints the printer driver influences the colour conversion)

Try this: open the PDF that prints successfully in Affinity and check its various colour settings, e.g. the document colour space, the layer colours and image resource colour spaces and their blend modes. Compare them with your initial document that does not print properly.

Maybe someone will appear who can open your V2 .afpub for a closer look.

 

[sfriedberg]

On 3/22/2024 at 8:21 AM, mrlennon said:

And got the pdf to export and the  print properly.  But Publisher will not print directly properly.

Similar experience.  I usually make illustrations in Designer, export them in SVG, and place them in Publisher.  When I use layer masks for cropping in Designer, the results often do not pass through Publisher correctly.  I was able to work around this by using EPS instead of SVG for the relatively few affected illustrations.

I have also noticed where printing directly from Publisher is not as clean as exporting to PDF from Publisher and printing the PDF.  SVG (vector) images (without transparency, masking or other problematic features) made in Designer and placed in Publisher come out on (the same) printer noticeably coarser and with inferior text rasterization than exporting to PDF first then printing.

[Old Bruce]

18 hours ago, sfriedberg said:

Similar experience.  I usually make illustrations in Designer, export them in SVG, and place them in Publisher.  When I use layer masks for cropping in Designer, the results often do not pass through Publisher correctly.  I was able to work around this by using EPS instead of SVG for the relatively few affected illustrations.

I have to ask; why not simply place the Designer document into the Publisher document?

 

Post Script: We all should stop using EPS. It is being dropped from a lot of software.

[sfriedberg]

18 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I have to ask; why not simply place the Designer document into the Publisher document?

Because I have about 50 3"x3" artboards in the Designer document?  Because I also need the SVGs for alternate (web) presentations of the content?  Because it's a workflow I am comfortable with?