Publisher - partly muted text color in printed booklet

[pippina]

Hi!

I printed for the first time from Affinity Publisher/PDF (used to do it in InDesign).

Everything looks fine in the print but some text-boxes seem "muted" (like 50% less color). I can't find the mistake in the document - everything seems equal to the boxes that were printed with the correct color/saturation. No difference, no other color, no other saturation-settings ...

It has nothing to do with the printing company because it happens randomly on the same page.

It's a mystery to me ...

Any idea what could be the mistake?

Thank you!

 

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Mac OS 10.11.6

Affinity Publisher 1.10.8

[Hangman]

Hi @pippina and welcome to the forums,

Could you upload a screenshot (or photo) of a sample page from the printed document so we can visually see the problem and also upload the Publisher file itself or just a single page where the issue has occurred so we can take a look at what has caused the problem...

[pippina]

Thanks for the welcome!

Here is a scan of the two pages of the printed document ... surrounded by a red line are the "weak" printed parts (only the text, the boxes and graphic in the background are fine). Surrounded with a green line are the well printed text boxes.

And there's the afpub-file. I had to blackmark (or x-out in the document) some things because they contain personal data  

Can you see the mistake?

Thanks a lot!

 

Map_mistakes.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @pippina,

Many thanks for your file...

I have to say likewise I can't see anything wrong with the file... All the text uses the same text style (Text), some of the K100 text is shown as Text+ because it has the addition of a Character outline set to 1 pt but the colour is set to none...

The Cyan numerals have a Character outline fill but the width is set to None and since this applies to all numerals wouldn't explain the anomaly of some text and numerals printing correctly and others not and the same with the K100 text...

• Text + Leading override: 15 pt; Character outline: solid 1 pt; Leading override; Leading: 100 %; Leading: 12 pt; Tab Stop: 2.5 mm; Tab Stop: 6 mm; Paragraph decorations
• Text + Zahl bold + Character fill: C:88 M:29 Y:4 K:8; Character outline fill: C:54 M:52 Y:77 K:79; Tab Stop: 4 mm; Paragraph decorations

An exported PDF clearly shows no variance between the text that has been printed correctly and the text which hasn't...

2 hours ago, pippina said:

It has nothing to do with the printing company because it happens randomly on the same page.

I would query this with the printing company as I can't see anything at all wrong with the file...

How was the file printed, litho or digitally printed?

[pippina]

Thank you very much for your effort and reply!

It was printed digitally.

The PDF I sent to the printer also doesn't show any variance between the texts ...

Okay, I will contact the printing company.

Thank you!

 

[Hangman]

1 minute ago, pippina said:

It was printed digitally.

If I had to guess I would say it was either an alignment issue or the inkjet nozzles need cleaning... The test would be to ask them to reprint the same file bearing in mind the print they've provided you with is not acceptable to see if you get the same results...

Let us know how you get on...

[carl123]

The only thing I can see, at the moment, is that the Blend Gamma on most of the text is set to 2.2. 

When normally it is 1.45 (for text) in the Affinity apps

But there is other text that is also set to 2.2 but is not affected. So non conclusive

You can easily select all the Text Frames and change them all to 1.45 if you want to eliminate that as the cause of the issue

[Hangman]

15 minutes ago, carl123 said:

When normally it is 1.45 (for text) in the Affinity apps

I'm pretty sure the default Blend Gamma for the Affinity apps is 2.2 having checked both Mac and Windows... but like you say, it only affects four street names which are all marked in green on the scanned image along with other text marked in green where the Blend Gamma is 2.2 so I don't think this is the issue...

Edit: I stand corrected, for text, yes it is 1.45 but that would only impact sRGB and not CMYK documents anyway...