How do I fix transparency printing problems in adobe illustrator?

Question

I am trying to print an adobe illustrator file that contains .tif images with some transparency in them. Everything looks great on the screen however, when I print the document each of the placed images gets a discolored (I mean the color doesnt match the background) box around it where the tif was cropped. How do I solve this problem

Answer 1

You might try setting the background to white (or whatever color paper you are using) and see what happens. Most of the cheap printers I have just don't handle transparency well.. looks great on screen but not on paper. (You might also have to flaten the layers for good output... just save it as a different file name.)