Transparency of background seems to be transparent but isn’t

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Angela_Cretsinger
Jun 3, 2004
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Transparency of background seems to be transparent in a Photoshop 7.0 file but when placed in Indesign 2.0 the box still seems transparent on the monitor but prints as a lighter version of whatever it is behind it. This causes odd ghost like backgrounds only within the canvas area of the placed image in Indesign. I am using a 1 GHz Power PC G4 1MB L3 cache per processor with 1.25 GB of Ram. It’s running on system OS X. I print on an HP 5500 Lazer printer.
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jun 3, 2004
How did you create the transparent background originally?
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Angela_Cretsinger
Jun 4, 2004
The photoshop document was set up as transparent and the background behind the image was cleared using the selection tools.
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graffiti
Jun 4, 2004
Could it be a transparency flattener setting in the InDesign print menu?
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Ann_Shelbourne
Jun 4, 2004
Meaning the Magic Wand or Eraser?

I asked, because sometimes one doesn’t get the background as clean as you think you have with these tools.
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John_Slate
Jun 5, 2004
If there are any readings at all from the info palette in a spot that looks transparent, then it is not transparent.

Total transparency means no pixels, ergo no readings from the info palette.
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Buko
Jun 5, 2004
When I delete a background I usually put a contrasting color behind the image so I can see what I’m erasing/deleting

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