Re: FN-FORUM: InDesign help needed please - printing for press

date posted 16th January 2006 19:58

Lindsay

1.You mentioned you scanned your images in at 2,400 dpi - this may be too
high and from any printed material you will start seeing all the dots used
to make up that picture in the first instance. Did you manipulate these
photos after scanning in to ensure the best quality?

2. Are you images saved as tiff's per any chance then linked into your
document? I seemed to have this problem when I was doing a brochure a
couple of years back and couldn't figure out what the problem was - turns
out if I saved these images as eps files or jpegs - it solved the problem -
sometimes tiffs were perfect other times they seemed to cause a problem - I
normally like to save my images as eps files for indesign and quark
documents.

3. Also worth a check is to check whether these images are 8 or 12 16 bit
channels. Normally changing these to 8 bit channels in photoshop may
rectify the problem.

Hope this is of help!
Laura


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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: InDesign help needed please - printing for press



On 16 Jan 2006 09:57:04 -0000, Lindsay Baugh
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>
> Good morning all
>
> My partner has produced a 16pp brochure in InDesign, with lots of photos.
> The standard quality PDF proof looks fine, but some of the scanned photos
> come out really badly in the press quality PDF, even though they were
> scanned at 2,400 dpi. I've had a look at the various print settings and
> can't work out what the issue is. The photo in question look worse than
> grainy - it's almost as though they have a cross-hatched pattern across
> them.
> Printers are waiting for artwork - any ideas from one of you
InDesign/print
> experts would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
>
> Kind regards
> Lindsay

Lindsay,

What did you scan the pictures from, photos, transparencies or
previously printed material?


Paul


Creative Digital Alliance
Tel: 0700 596 4491
http://www.CreativeDigitalAlliance.Co.Uk

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