I’ve spent the last 2 hours pulling my hair. I apparently did something wrong, it ended up with a bad print.
Little context : I work for a B2B magazine, clients send us adds to insert in the magazine in PDF. I check those pdf for Resolution, Size, Crop Marks etc….
I then import the pdf in my indesign file to place them where they are supposed to be. Then I export using a preset that is recommended by the Belgian association of printers : https://www.medibelplus.be/nl/downloads/index.jsp, then I send to print. I obviously get a print proof. In this case I was going on holiday, very tired and didn’t see the mistake on the Proof sent by the printer.
On document A from the client : If I untick simulate overprinting, here is what I get : https://ibb.co/7g4w0sh no transparency problem, no overprinting etc…
On document B (After exporting from Indesign) : If I untick simulate overprinting, part of the design disappear : https://ibb.co/HNW4VkB and that is what the final printed document ended up looking. Needless to say the client is unhappy and their studio say its my fault. I agree but I can’t see what I did wrong.
The default view on acrobat is with “simulate overprinting” ticked so I din’t see that when sending to print.
How can I export and not create overprinting issues that were not there in the first place ? Appart from manually checkin every add and make sure it is similar to the original, how can I change the way I work to not let that happen again ? First time in 8 years this happen.
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