Png printing errors

[Guest]

When I try to print a PPT slide using a Fiery printer I get a thin white line
around the png images within the file. Please don't mistake this for the
white border around the entire page, that is not the issue. It is a thin
white line around each PNG image. This happens on printers using the Fiery
technology, but not on other printers. I have been researching this for
months and it seems to be a issue between Powerpoint and the Fiery
technology. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, forgot to mention this is PPT XP (2002)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Does the printer do any sort of image smoothing or the like? Try turning off
all image enhancement features and see if that helps.

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

This is more of a printer driver issue. The basic rule is the better the
printer (in this case a Fiery with Post Script ripping capabilities - very
good stuff) the worse PPT prints (at least .pngs). This is because the print
driver is looking for header information from each image to tell it how to
process and print. PPT does not use this type of information so it has
nothing to send to the printer - hence the less than perferct results. On
the other hand a good inkjet printer that defeaults to only printing from
the screen information does a great job.

Your two options are to set up the fiery with a print setting that
eliminates all of its "higher quality" settings or to export all of your
images as .jpg's and then print the flattened .jpg image (which is my
method).

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Your two options are to set up the fiery with a print setting that
eliminates all of its "higher quality" settings or to export all of your
images as .jpg's and then print the flattened .jpg image (which is my
method).

Along the same lines, if you have Acrobat, it's worth printing to it to make a
PDF and then printing the PDF to the printer. Acrobat (the Distiller part) has
the ability to do "idiom recognition". It can recognize app-specific
PostScript "accents" and apply some smart internal translations to improve the
results. The gradients that come out of PPT to PS are nasty. Distiller's
idiom recognition turns them pretty again. With luck, it'll do something
similar for bitmaps.

And of course Acrobat itself is a fair hand at yakking with PS printers.