Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

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martinjmac
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Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

Postby martinjmac » Sun May 19, 2013 1:11 pm

Hello,
I am very new to inkscape as I just downloaded it yesterday. I mainly downloaded the program to design vinyl wraps for "cornhole" (AKA Baggo or Bags) boards that I make. I made a design that contains a transparent object and I saved my finished design in PDF, which I the file format my print shop wanted. Everything looked great in inkscape and in Adobe. When the print shop sent a print ready image back to me my transparent object turned opaque. I have attached my finished design as well as my print shops print ready image so you can see exactly what I am talking about. Is there anything I can do inside of inkscape such as flatten or merge all objects into one object in order to fix this issue? If you need more information please let me know.
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Print Ready - USARPAC Cornhole.jpg
Print ready design with opaque countries.
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USARPAC Cornhole.jpg
Final design with transparent countries.
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Re: Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

Postby Lazur » Mon May 20, 2013 8:18 am

You attached a print -ready image in jpg.
Is that captured from the pdf, or was it from an svg export?
If that's how your pdf looks like -it should, inkscape can save transparent fills to pdfs-, the problem is at the printer's side.
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Re: Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

Postby brynn » Tue May 21, 2013 12:41 pm

Lazur URH wrote:You attached a print -ready image in png.

PNG?? I see 2 JPGs.
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Re: Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

Postby Lazur » Tue May 21, 2013 9:55 pm

Sorry it was a mix up, but it still captured the problem.

Anyway what's with this drawing? Why does it have to be so much occult?
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Re: Transparent objects not turn opaque when printed?

Postby brynn » Wed May 22, 2013 7:26 am

Oh, sorry Lazur. I was a bit mixed up as well Image

martinjmac, if you could show us the PDF that you gave to your printer, maybe someone could spot the problem. Also, do you know what the print shop was using to make the print-ready image? As Adobe is often the standard, I'm surprised they aren't using it. If it looks ok in.....well, when you say Adobe, do you mean Illustrator or Reader (Acrobat)?
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