Getting box around blur in Illustrator.

[Kyle Blue]

Hello,
I'm trying to print a Illustrator file that has a blur in it. The problem is that when I print it out on a Mimaki, I am getting a "box around the blur that darkens the print in that area only. It looks fine on screen in illustrator, I do notice the box shows up in a preview of the print in the queue though. Any ideas as to how I can repair this?

 

[J Hill Designs]

flatten transparency, or set both raster and vector to same rendering intent in the RIP

 

[Kyle Blue]

I had tried Flatten Transparancy, but all I would get was a white box were the blur was. But being that you suggested it again I thought I would take another crack at it.

Low and behold if I select the group instead of just the blur and Flatten Transparancy, I get the blur with the white box. I am able to delete the white pieces but the whole graphic is now cut up into small individual sections. It'll probably work, but from a file cleanliness view, its a mess.

Thank you jhilldesigns! Your help is always appreciated.

 

[MikeD]

Do you have a spot color behind your effect? I have seen this too, and upon converting the spot color to cmyk, the print turned out fine.

 

[Kyle Blue]

That's what I thought too. But I don't believe so, I do have 2 sets of gradients behind it but they are all CMYK colors. Unless I'm missing somthing.

 

[sfr table hockey]

Try to open it up in Photoshop and let it do its thing (rasterising) and save it as a jpeg and print it. This worked for some small banners for me. I think as a PDF from photoshop also worked.

 

[Kyle Blue]

Yeah, I thought about bringing it into Photoshop also, but I thought there would be a easy way and I was bound and determined to find it.

 

[Kyle Blue]

Well, it looks fine printed. I personally hate having a vector file that looks the way it does but it will have to do. Again thank you for all of your help and suggestions.

 

[MikePro]

i get this problem occasionally, just flatten transparencies in illustrator and make sure to save your output to high resolution transparency settings.
otherwise, take it a step further and bring into photoshop to flatten.

 

[brdesign]

I run into that problem a lot when customers supply their own files for printing. They usually have all kinds of issues with transparancys, gradients etc. Now I just open almost all customer files into photshop and save as a tif before printing.

 

[JoshLoring]

Wow. Nobody asked what version of illustrator or what your saving the file as...

Kyle- I had this problem is cs2 back years ago. Cs4+ fixes it if you can send ver4eps, ver5eps files to your rip. Save as eps> version 4-5, format none, preset High res.

 

[Bly]

Nothing fixed the issue for us except opening the file in Photoshop and sending a tif to the rip.
It may be my imagination but I think Onyx 10 handles these types of files better than 7.