ghosting when printing graphic

Using Photoshop CS
I'm printing a jpg picture which is located in one corner of the page. The finished print is then overprinted with various text. The problem is that I am getting a very faint grey box covering the whole page when printed. I have gone into "levels" and the output readings are 0, 255 which I assume should give white background.
Is this correct or is there another way of getting rid of the ghosting. Should the "background contents" be set at transparent when creating a new page - should this cure the problem??

All help appreciated

peter

Peter Norman wrote:

Using Photoshop CS
I'm printing a jpg picture which is located in one corner of the page. The finished print is then overprinted with various text. The problem is that I am getting a very faint grey box covering the whole page when printed. I have gone into "levels" and the output readings are 0, 255 which I assume should give white background.
Is this correct or is there another way of getting rid of the ghosting. Should the "background contents" be set at transparent when creating a new page - should this cure the problem??

All help appreciated

peter

Are you using a page layout program? First of all, jpegs aren't for printing. Use tiff. Is the gray background from Photoshop? What does the eyedropper tell you? What kind of printer are you using? Not enough info. --
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Not using layout program
I'm using Photoshop only, graphic created in PS, grey background in PS, eye dropper shows white (255)
Using Epson 1290 printer

"edjh" wrote in message

Peter Norman wrote:

Using Photoshop CS
I'm printing a jpg picture which is located in one corner of the page. The finished print is then overprinted with various text. The problem is that I am getting a very faint grey box covering the whole page when printed. I have gone into "levels" and the output readings are 0, 255

which

I assume should give white background.
Is this correct or is there another way of getting rid of the ghosting. Should the "background contents" be set at transparent when creating a

new

page - should this cure the problem??

All help appreciated

peter

Are you using a page layout program? First of all, jpegs aren't for printing. Use tiff. Is the gray background from Photoshop? What does the eyedropper tell you? What kind of printer are you using? Not enough info. --
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

Shirley wrote:

Not using layout program
I'm using Photoshop only, graphic created in PS, grey background in PS, eye dropper shows white (255)
Using Epson 1290 printer

Not sure what's causing it. Perhaps the type. Have you tried a transparent background?

I would use a layout app for type.

"edjh" wrote in message

Peter Norman wrote:

Using Photoshop CS
I'm printing a jpg picture which is located in one corner of the page. The finished print is then overprinted with various text. The problem is that I am getting a very faint grey box covering the whole page when printed. I have gone into "levels" and the output readings are 0, 255

which

I assume should give white background.
Is this correct or is there another way of getting rid of the ghosting. Should the "background contents" be set at transparent when creating a

new

page - should this cure the problem??

All help appreciated

peter

Are you using a page layout program? First of all, jpegs aren't for printing. Use tiff. Is the gray background from Photoshop? What does the eyedropper tell you? What kind of printer are you using? Not enough info.

--
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

It sounds like you may have the brightness turned down in the Epson printer driver. If this is the case, "white" will print as a "gray". If you don't want to calibrate your system, one way to get rid of the gray overprint is to use a transparent rather than a white background when you overprint the text.

Hope this helps,

Mike

On Mon, 3 May 2004 16:06:19 +0100, "Peter Norman" wrote:

Using Photoshop CS
I'm printing a jpg picture which is located in one corner of the page. The finished print is then overprinted with various text. The problem is that I am getting a very faint grey box covering the whole page when printed. I have gone into "levels" and the output readings are 0, 255 which I assume should give white background.
Is this correct or is there another way of getting rid of the ghosting. Should the "background contents" be set at transparent when creating a new page - should this cure the problem??

All help appreciated

peter