Gradients will not print after exporting print ready pdf from indesign.

[ivanm72208842]

Where I work we export print ready pdfs from indesign with everything outline and embedded. Ive never had this problem, but I did a test print using our large plotter with print ready preset from indesign and gradients just wont print. Help.

[Derek Cross]

A plotter!

Try to print on say an inkjet printer.

[ivanm72208842]

We print full scale to review designs.

[Scott Falkner]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Derek+Cross  wrote

A plotter!

Try to print on say an inkjet printer.

The common term for a large format inkjet printer is a plotter. We are a long way from those pen driven vector devices of the ’80s.

To OP:

Can you be more descriptive? What do you mean by the gradients don’t print? Do they appear in the PDF but not on paper? Do they print as a solid, as nothing at all, or something else? And, just so I know we’re clear, is this a large format inject printer? Can it print gradients from other sources, like raster images or directly from InDesign?

Some visuals would help, like a screen capture of the InDesign file or the PDF and a photo or scan of the output. What are your PDF export options?

[Bill Silbert · Accepted solution]

There are some plotters for which it is necessary to first export the InDesign as a jpeg, open it in Photoshop and make the layout into a tiff before it can print gradients successfully. This is especially true of older model plotters.

[Geоrge]

There are some plotters for which it is necessary to first export the InDesign as a jpeg, open it in Photoshop and make the layout into a tiff before it can print gradients successfully. This is especially true of older model plotters.

I'm prefer another way. Need to do export PDF from InDesign without flatten transparency, than open this PDF in Photoshop and save as PSD 600 dpi (for hither-look, if for street-view than you can use some smaller dpi), than send this banner to "large" printer from Photoshop.

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>> print using our large plotter with print ready preset from indesign and gradients just wont print.

Are you use print directly from InDesign? If yes, don't do this again. Always print from Acrobat Pro or as I say above. Print from InDesign is a feature for proofreading of the text only.

[ivanm72208842]

We ended up going this route and managed to have it printed with gradients. Thanks for this.

[Bill Silbert]

Glad it worked.