Finlay55555 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Hi, the company I work at is trying to move from adobe over to affinity but we're getting an issue with printing. We use Roland UV Printers and we print onto Lego pieces but using the PDFs exported from Affinity the colours are coming out darker and more faded than when we used PDFs saved from Adobe Illustrator. Is there some kind of ICC profile or colour setting that might help in this situation? Thanks. I am currently using a Roland LEF 2-200 UV printer. Quote
Staff NathanC Posted January 29 Staff Posted January 29 Hi @Finlay55555 welcome to the forums, If you could upload a copy of an affinity-exported PDF, as well as one previously exported from Illustrator, we can look at comparing the embedded ICC profiles within the files and confirm any potential factors contributing to the print colour differences. Thanks Quote
Finlay55555 Posted January 30 Author Posted January 30 Of course here they are, thank you for the help! WW2 Soviet Airborne Paratrooper Heads - Affinity Test.pdf WW2 Soviet Airborne Paratrooper Heads - Illustrator.pdf Quote
Alfred Posted January 30 Posted January 30 Before even attempting to download either of those files, it’s immediately noticeable that one is 6.5 MB whilst the other is only 430 KB. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
Staff NathanC Posted January 30 Staff Posted January 30 Many thanks. Initial observation via Acrobat object inspector is that the Illustrator PDF does not contain any embedded ICC profiles, just generic CMYK whereas the affinity export has U.S Web coated SWOP (V2) embedded. Not sure what export preset or settings you used in Publisher, but I'd recommend unchecking 'Embed Profiles' in the 'Advanced' section on PDF export. This should just export with a generic CMYK profile similar to Illustrator's output. Quote
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