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I edited a logo in Illustrator for a hat using spot colors. 3 colors total. I saved as illustrator and then placed in InDesign for sizing. I printed it and some of the color didnt show up. So I figured it was the spot colors screwing with our printer. I printed again, but this time, in the ink manager of the print dialogue, I converted all spots to process. That substantially changed the colors in the image. I saved to PDF and then opened in Photoshop, and I get missing color plus changed color. Whats up? Looks great on screen when in Illustrator, and placed in InDesign.. but when It prints or is converted to PDF and opened in Photoshop, it goes to hell.
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Yep.. it's an overprint issue. When I open the PDF, the overprint version is all screwed up... and over print preview OFF looks fine.
Why is overprint doing anything? I dont intentionally do anything with overprint..I dont really know what overprint is, let alone want anything to do with overprint. I want whats on screen to print...
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