Illustrator covering white areas with fine cyan dots

hunter · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

I've created a small basic image in a 1" circle in Illustrator. When I export it to Photoshop and print it from there, the white areas that came over from Illustrator have very fine cyan dot in them, while the white areas from Photoshop are clean.

I checked and Illustrator shows the white as 0% color in each of the CMYK channels. If I print the image out of Illustrator the white areas of the image AND the entire background has the dots.

I enlarged the image in Photoshop to 1600% and you can't see any Cyan dots at all. The Info palate shows 0% dot in the area, yet it prints Cyan dots anyway. I tried creating a new image in Illustrator, thinking something might be wrong with the file, but the same thing happens.

If I had to, I could probably recreate everything in Photoshop, but I'd rather solve the problem if possible. I posted on the Adobe site, but so far there aren't many suggestions of what's wrong. Anyone here have any ideas?

mwookie · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 14

I have never seen this behaviour in Illustrator or Photoshop. I would suggest two things

a) Make sure your updates are current
b) (You may have tried this) But export your image in a different before importing into photoshop.

Good luck.

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hunter · Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 2

Illustrator is the most current version (12.0.1). I exported the image as a Photoshop PSD. I guess I could try a TIFF or something else but I really want to solve the Illustrator side of the problem. I also tried printing an Illustrator created logo and had the same problem. The printer's not at fault because no other application does this. It's not a particular Illustrator document because they all print like this. It seems like it's Illustrator itself writing a screen-invisible cyan dot into everything.

sparkcc · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 3

If the cyan dots are only on the print outs, but not on the screen info it could be to do with Print settings of illustrator. I have not tried this but under colour management after>print have you tried changing the rendering intent as this I believe looks at the source of the white space (it describes this better than I can when you roll over Rendering Intent)
Hope this helps if you've not tried this line yet!