Printing Photoshop gradient in Frame

[Scott White]

Update

I did some testing here. 
I used a tif and eps image I created in photoshop and applied a pantone 216 gradient. I imported both images into Frame 9.0.
I used the save as pdf function and made sure I unchecked the box that converts colors to rgb.
I printed to a cmyk printer here that outputs at 600 dpi and another that outputs at 1200 dpi. I compared the results to our pantone swatch we have.

Seems the 600 dpi printer was very close to the swatch - a maroon or burgundy if you will. The 1200 dpi printer was darker and a different color almost a purple.

I think I have my answers.



Scott White
Media Production & EBC Manager
Implementation Coordinator
210-704-8239
swhite at alamark.com




On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Scott White wrote:

> I have this client who is trying to print a PDF created from Framemaker to her network printer. She is stating that the pantone color is too dark or not true. It looks fine as a non gradient using the colors that you can set up within frame. Is there something else I can tell her do? Frame 9.0 Windows XP SP3.
> 
> See her note:
> Scott,
> 
> When I do the header directly in Framemaker and use the custom Pantone 216 that we set up while you were here, then print it, it comes out correctly.  When I do the graphic with a 216 background in Photoshop then import it into Framemaker then print it, it comes out extremely dark.  I am doing pdfs already in both cases.
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> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Scott White
> Media Production & EBC Manager
> Implementation Coordinator
> 210-704-8239
> swhite at alamark.com
> 
> 
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