: Image has background when i print but not on the screen I have put a psd images in my illustrator document, when I made them in Photoshop I made the background transparent and the images

@Dunderdale640

I had the same issue and although I couldn't find the root cause, I found that opening the .ai file in photoshop then printing from photoshop solved the issue. You can always save it as a .pdf from photoshop which will also print fine.

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@Phylliss782

If you used a layer mask, make sure your black color recipe is 100% in all CMYK (Cyan 100, Magenta 100, Yellow 100 and Black 100).

If you use the default black to do your masking, it's possible there will be a bit of transparency on your mask and show the background. It's often hard to see so maybe that's why your background looks perfectly transparent in Photoshop!

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@Si6392903

A transparent background its not the same as "no background" at all in a digital file. In this case the background is only "covered" with the mask. To remove that information you need to make a new layer out of this mask, and delete the original layer. Of course always save your original files.

This will have the aditional benefit that the file size will be smaller, becouse there is no bacground data at all.

But if the final porpuse of the image is for printing there is no sense in making a file with transparencies at all, you can just make that zone white and flatten the image.

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@Moriarity648

Print the image directly from PhotoShop where there is no background.

You can also export the image to a .png without a background and then print the .png.

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