I hae been trying to export a 36 page layout in grey scale for the past couple hours now. Everytime it exports, I open it up and there are some objects in color still. Quark is not consistent as to which items come out in color and which items come out grey scale becuase each time it's been exported different items have come out in different colors. Any ideas? thanks in advance.
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Exporting in greyscale and still getting miscilaneous colors
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MarcusStringer
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I've also had that problem, except it has been with clipart and some EPS's with gradients in them.
I just opened them up and converted them to greyscale which solved the problem....
Marcus
I just opened them up and converted them to greyscale which solved the problem....
Marcus
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Still haven's found a reasonable solution to this. The only thing i can do about it is save each page as an eps then import the entire page into a new quark document. The problem with that is i'm only trying to print them in gray scale for proof reading purposes so it's realy annoying haveing to do this for 36 pages each time i need an ad proofed. The graphics need to stay cmyk for the actual printing so converting them is pretty much out of the question. If anyone has any suggestions i'm glad to listen thanks.
By the way im on a Mac G5 with osx Panther, using quark 6.
By the way im on a Mac G5 with osx Panther, using quark 6.
When you get into your print dialog box, you should be able to specify how to output colors (in the Output pane) and select grey or b/w instead of composite.... If you can't do it in the Quark box (if you don't have a post script printer), then you should be able to select that from your printer's options.
MarcusStringer
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Signal49:
That doesn't work, there are some elements which won't convert (like I said, Clipart and gradients)
Emkemner:
What proofing device are you running your job to?
Do you have a B+W printer?
Marcus
That doesn't work, there are some elements which won't convert (like I said, Clipart and gradients)
Emkemner:
What proofing device are you running your job to?
Do you have a B+W printer?
Marcus
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At the moment I'm printing them to an HP photo printer. From the sound of it the best solution would be to pick up a cheap black and white printer. I would think that would solve the problem beings the printer couldnt print the colors. Other than that i don't know what to do about it. Thank you for all your input it's very much appreciated.
It does sound like it's an issue with your printer and not the software. When a photo printer prints greys, it uses all of the colors to mix it. So I bet even if you changed all the pictures and gradients to just black and white in your file, any greys would still come out "colored." Good luck
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