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I'm with Keith, I think it is a proofing detail. Before spinning my
wheels working on a new file, I would get the printers opinion on why
it proofed that way. Since you are going to the expense to print 5
colors order a high-resolution proof if they are CTP, if not and they
are using film get a blueline and matchprint.

JAK


aluxelocochon@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope you guys can help me. I recently made an ad in adobe illustrator
> which has a greyscale image with an orange to transparent gradient on
> top made by creating an opacity mask. Well on the screen it looks fine
> and so I sent it to the comercial printer. However when the comercial
> printer gave us the proof it shows a sort of lighter hue band in the
> area where the orange gradient ends and meets with the grey image
> below. In other words, instead of the gradient blending smoothly with
> the grey image below (as it shows on screen!) there is like a lighter
> strip that just almost ends abrouptly and looks bad where the gradient
> ends.
>
> This same thing had happened to me with almost the same ad in the same
> place when I took it to Kinkos to print. However this time the gradient
> and the greyscale image were one rasterized bitmap image exported from
> photoshop. The guy in kinkos was telling me that it is a problem that
> appears because the image has an area of just k and sudddenly it goes
> to color and it not always goes smoothly. Well I told him that in my
> printer at my office that didn't come up, but he told me again about
> the k to color problem which was odd to me because this time it was
> just one image like a photo so I don't see how that could be my
> problem. Anyways I suggested he try printing it from another printer
> there at kinkos and he did and this time it came out without any
> problems. So that solved it that time.
>
> But my current case is that the proof from the comercial printing is
> showing this band again, so my question to you all is this: Is this a
> problem that the Comercial printer should solve or is there something I
> can do to correct this in the illustrator file?
>
> Any help/suggestions will be really appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aluxe