Printing graphics

[Sharon]

I am working with .tiff graphic in Word 2002. When I
created my document and inserted my graphic from a file,
it printed out perfect. Sometime later I opened the
document to print and the graphic does not print the
color it is suppose to be. The yellow is an yellow brown
and the red is black. I can print this graphic in any
other program except Word. I don't understand why it
won't print now but it did in the beginning.

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks
Sharon

 

[DA]

Hi Sharon

This shouldn't happen, but I suggest you try a different
file format (.jpg is probably best here) to give yourself
a better chance of success. TIFF files can vary a lot in
their size, color space and resolution. They are
generally used for print publishing because they are
lossless with regards to their compression algorithm.

When you import a TIFF into Word and save it, it no
longer retains the settings that warrant using the format
in the first place. Word generally converts the image to
a Device Independent Bitmap. Problem is in the
conversion. A lot of packages cannot handle 32-bit CMYK
high-resolution tiffs correctly, causing color shift and
all sorts of other nasty artifacts.

Try downsampling the TIFF (reduce DPI to <= than 300 and
swap to RGB color), but ideally save your image as a .jpg
and you should stay clear of problems.

Good luck,
Dennis