HELP! Please... problem with printing shadows

[SilentAlf]

Hi All,

As you can see in the attached photo black lines are appearing in the shadowed area when only. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

My printer is a Ricoh SG3110DN Printer and I use Photoshop elements 6.0

Many thanks,

[pisquee]

Have you printed a nozzle test pattern to check your inks are all flowing 100%

[SilentAlf]

Hi Pisquee, yes I completed a nozzle check after and printer it again and it still printer with the lines. Thank you for your reply

[JMugs]

Next suggestion is an alignment check. I assume you mean the arching lines at the top where there is (or should be) a smooth gradient. I don't see why that would cause the issue there alone, but....

Janners

[Quinsfan]

I only use Corel but before I print I use the wireframe view to check that I have no hidden lines. Are the lines on the paper before printing.

[SilentAlf]

Thank you for the replies, I have done the alignments and the lines are still showing :frown:

[JMugs]

What happens if you convert the image to bitmap? I say this because I was sent an image that just printed with colours all to pot. It was a bitmap pattern that in it's self should not have been a problem, convert to straight bitmap...problem gone. I don't understand it but it worked!

Janners

[SilentAlf]

Hi JMugs, I have converted it to bitmap but it went I had a message say that it had to be converted to grayscale first so I clicked OK then its all gone black any white lol

[JMugs]

How odd, there is an option to go grey scale..but you should have the option to go full colour.

Send me the image and Ill print one off to see what happens. I'll PM you.

Janners

[JMugs]

The image here is printed out by me through photoshop and coreldraw with no lines...anybody able to shed more light on this using a ricoh 3110
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