Unwanted drop shadow ghost images in prints....Anybody?

I am using photoshop to color seperate using the magic wand tool. I seperate about 4 colors and every time I print each layer of color, on the actual print there is random drop shadows/ghost images of the print. I made new images and drag each layer sepratley, flatten the image, erase everything around the image, and when I print it still happends, even when there is absolutley no other pixels on the image. This is very challenging. I hope someone can give me some advice. This does not happen with other 1 layer images, it only seems to happen when I seperate colors. Thank you for your time.

No, unfortunately I can’t help You there.
In the company I work at I needn’t concern myself with the printers and the RIP much because they are one of my colleagues responsibility.
But if a file is definitely OK and the output is not, it seems natural to me to assume that the error has happened further downstream and that would seem to leave the printer and the RIP.
Have You tried printing the images from a different program like Indesign or Acrobat?

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