Printing from Illustrator is faded print.

Why can't I print from Illustrator a non-faded print. It always prints as if I wanted a  proof or something.

Well I usually do no have to although it does come out a bit better anyway with Acrobat but it is not Adobe's fault since the printer is not postscript unless you buy a postscript driver which the printer manufacturer will sell you or you can get a third party driver and they are usually costly.
Adobe use to sell an inexpensive one called press ready but I do not think a lot of people used it. I know I did.

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  • Why can't I print from Illustrator a non-faded print. It always prints as if I wanted a  proof or something.

    Why can't I print from Illustrator a non-faded print. It always prints as if I wanted a  proof or something.

    YOu have not provided any system info, version info or details about your printer. This is not going anywhere beyond stating the obvious - your system is not color managed.
    Mylenium

  • Can't Print from Illustrator Anymore

    just out of the blue, can't print from Illustrator CS3 or 4 to an epson 3800. Had the printer and computer for over a year, Vista 64, never had an issue, printed hundreds of pages with this printer and various Adobe products, then bam, out of the blue, this problem.
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    try dumping your preferences
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  • Why do my Pantone colors in my pdf print differently from Adobe Reader than they do from Illustrator

    I'm using the same printer color setting/profile in each application, US Web Coated Swop v2, (I choose this profile in the pint dialog box in Reader). The pantone colors do not match on our Sharp MX3100. I know Illustrator has been using the new Pantone books. Is Reader updated with these or is it converting my pdf to rgb when it prints? I like to print my customer's pdf file from Reader first and then after I set the file up with our shop parameters in Illustrator CS6 I print the file from illustrator but the Pantone colors, Orange 021 for instance looks entirely different. Thanks for any help!

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    First of all I have to admit I'm not a big computer brainiac but this issue keeps on reoccurring no matter what computer I use. When creating files/layouts in Illustrator and either saving them to pdf and then printing or printing directly from Illustrator either from a PC or from Mac (I use both) the print outs come out with mysterious lines and gradient not matter what colour is used. The lines occur on solid colour prints, when gradient or transparency are not used and when they are used as well. Any ideas suggestions how to make them go away?

    Monica,
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  • Bought a new Canon MG7540 printer to replace the old HP A618. When printing vector objects from Illustrator, they look like graphics from dandy (8 bits) ... no smooth, all cubes ... if do raster than print perfectly.  Who knows how to treat it? No well to

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    Hi all,
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    You can turn on crop & trim marsk when doing a save as to PDF. But turn on some bleed values greater than 0 (not  as in my screenshot) or you will not get any bleed of your artwork, just the marks then.

  • Printing Errors from Illustrator CC

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    Thank you Larry!  I had suspected Fiery because of other issues we've had in the past, but figured since we'd recently updated everything (including Fiery) to the latest and greatest that the problems would dissipate.  I'm so glad to hear it isn't just us!
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  • Problems printing from illustrator to Canon printer

    I have problems with printing from Illustrator CS4 to a Canon printer i-Sensys MF8050 (printing
    from Illustrator to a Epson stylus Photo R2400 is no problem).
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    Thanx Mike,
    Reinstalled the printer softwear but it didn't resolve the problem.
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    I think something is wrong with Illustrator, because starting up the printing module is also taking a long time.
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  • Printing directly from Illustrator CS4

    I'm getting ready to purchase the CS4 web suite.
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    Thanks! I did reposte to the indesign forum. I just though that maybe someone in the type forum ran across this issue. Thanks so much!
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  • When I try to print from Illustrator CS3 the program unexpectedly quits. I don't get anything happening other than the spinning ball and the quit message.

    Is this because the application is so outdated?

    Thanks for your help Monika. Yes, the printer is is supported by the system. The printer is about 2 months old and the driver were installed then. I called Canon support and they said it sounded like a problem with Illustrator. I can print the same file by saving it as a pdf and printing from Acrobat Pro, so it seems to be a problem with Illustrator. If I try to print the pdf from Illustrator it will quit.

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    Now I've tried reinstalling Illustrator. I've run disk warrior. Tried the fsck command on startup. our technical outsources tell us it might be a memory problem, but I'm not tsure as this only happens in Illustrator and no other programs.... any ideas?

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    http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc419c4
    http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-87456.html

  • Printing from Illustrator does not match Photoshop

    I have CS3. The colorsuite is matched across all platforms so colour profiles are all the same.
    I print pure cmyk colours in a document, so one square is cyan, another magenta and so on.
    When I print from photoshop, it prints the colours correct. Each colour is printed from each printers colour cartridge directly. But when I print from Illustrator, its not printing purely. The colours are darker and have mixed colours under a magnifier.
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    Any ideas why Illustrator is coming out muddier? Many thanks in advance.

    Yes the mode is definately CMYK in photoshop. See the images attached of scanned closeup of the print out of yellow.
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    Yellow below is from Photoshop. You can see its pure yellow which is what I want.
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    Edit2: "I would like to know what's the definition of "correct"?" For a start Magenta looks like a dark red. Cyan is blue but a dark shade of it.

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    OK, so I print a file from Illustrator to my ultra high-res inkjet printer, and you can see the jagged lines that make up every curve, making text in particular look bad. Yet if I save the file as a PDF and print from Acrobat, I get the full resolution of the printer and it looks stunning. However colours often change... So, can I somehow change the printing resolution that Illustrator uses? This isn't printer specific either, it's always done it no matter that printer I use.
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    Well I usually do no have to although it does come out a bit better anyway with Acrobat but it is not Adobe's fault since the printer is not postscript unless you buy a postscript driver which the printer manufacturer will sell you or you can get a third party driver and they are usually costly.
    Adobe use to sell an inexpensive one called press ready but I do not think a lot of people used it. I know I did.

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    clarke,
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