Comments on: Eliminating YDB (Yucky Discolored Box) Syndrome

By: Claudia McCue

Claudia McCue — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:19:54 +0000

David,
Are you saying that if you submit a PDF to the RIP you get the white box, but if you submit an EPS to the RIP you don’t? If so, this implies that the RIP doesn’t correctly process PDFs (or perhaps not the particular flavor of PDF you’re feeding it). Does the job involve spot colors? What settings are you using for the PDF?

By: David Gregory

David Gregory — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:28:06 +0000

I am useing a roland printer with roland versaworks
Can anything be done in the rip program to stop the yucky white box even when i change the setings as above if i save as a PDF i still get the box but if I save as a EPS no box any ideas for me?

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:51:42 +0000

Okay, I figured out how to export to PDF properly so you will not get a YDB.

1. Choose Export to pdf in InDesign and choose your save location.
2. Select the “Advanced” tab on the left list.
3. Under the Standard drop down box choose: PDF/X-1a:2001 (after a test print and your colors aren’t right, choose PDF/X-1a:2003 and test)
4. Select your saved flattener
5. Export to location!

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:24:28 +0000

Great forum! It helped me a lot in InDesign. However, I need to export to pdf since many times I have to do 100 copies of a 10 page document. That, as you know, would take forever to print in InDesign (CS4). However, when I go to print using Acrobat Reader I get my YDB back or my colors are very faded.

Any suggestions? Thanks so much!

By: Scott Sharon

Scott Sharon — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:08:20 +0000

We produce only CMYK output (no spot) and this problem only appears if we write a pdf from InDesign that has both drop shadows and gradients present. If it only has either a drop shadow or a gradient, it appears fine. If we write it as an eps file, everything looks good.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0000

Awesome post. I’ve been struggling with this problem for weeks and now it’s fixed (using the method you described). I can’t tell you how many print jobs I’ve made trying to get this straightened out. Finally. Thanks,

Tom

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:54:58 +0000

Brian, you mentioned that the front and back objects must share the same ICC tag. How do you do that?

By: Mateo

Mateo — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:36:38 +0000

Oh yeah, I used an cPDF sheetCMYK v1.3. The transparencies are flattened down and there are no spotcolors of what so ever.
I found this quite disturbing…

By: Mateo

Mateo — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:32:56 +0000

Jason Cutler, did you manage to find a solution for the Xerox machine? Because I’ve encountered the same problems on a Docutech 12.
Simulate overprint did not work and turning off CMYK-simulations on the EFI/FIERY EX12 RIP did also nothing.

By: Frank R.

Frank R. — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:46:09 +0000

Opened pdf in Photoshop (which rasterizes entire file) and printed on Xerox 7700 and Wha-La YDB Syndrome was gone!