[Michael Mooney]

I wasn’t printing on a desktop printer. I am using HP Wide Format printers and I was going through a rip. What I had to do was save the file as an [eps] to preserve the colors (because I was matching a previous job without drop shadows) and when saving there is an option that Illustrator provides to keep as vector or rasterize.
I had to rasterize and color adjust in the rip. I also had to adjust the color of the image (people’s skin tones) to counter the rip adjustments.

It was a mighty big pain the a$$. The final results looked great so it was all worth it.

[Michael Mooney]

Hi Vince,

Thanks for commenting. I rasterized the images that had drop shadows. When I did this, all the color in the file was changed.

The reason I need to print from my eps file is because I am trying to match a color that I have printed previously for a client.

I am thinking about getting rid of the of the drop shadows and placing some black text behind it and bluring it out.
However, I think the blur effect will be give me the same problems the drop shadow has given me.

Any suggestions would be great.