InDeisgn CS2 Pages not printing - Linked EPS issue?

[bradgreens]

I have been producing a bunch of brochures for the company I work for in InDesign CS2. However in just a couple of documents, occasionaly a single page will not print. It appears to be the last page in two documents, and so far is specific to one printer in our office. I ensured all spots were output to cmyk and tested Postcript level 2 and 3. No luck. The pages that don't print have about a dozen linked eps images in them.

My thinking is the printer hits an error or doesn't like something about a specific eps file and cancels the page. My computer will indicate the page was sent successfully to the print, however at the printer it won't spool the probelm page.

Thoughts? I'm worried I'll have to go though dozens of these EPS graphics and resave them a specific way to fix this problem. Or perhaps if there is a raster graphic in one of these many EPS files with a conflicting color-space, that may be an issue.

Thanks for any input guys.

[strev]

Originally Posted by bradgreens

I have been producing a bunch of brochures for the company I work for in InDesign CS2. However in just a couple of documents, occasionaly a single page will not print. It appears to be the last page in two documents, and so far is specific to one printer in our office. I ensured all spots were output to cmyk and tested Postcript level 2 and 3. No luck. The pages that don't print have about a dozen linked eps images in them.

My thinking is the printer hits an error or doesn't like something about a specific eps file and cancels the page. My computer will indicate the page was sent successfully to the print, however at the printer it won't spool the probelm page.

Thoughts? I'm worried I'll have to go though dozens of these EPS graphics and resave them a specific way to fix this problem. Or perhaps if there is a raster graphic in one of these many EPS files with a conflicting color-space, that may be an issue.

Thanks for any input guys.

Indesign can be funny sometimes when it comes to colour spaces
Run the Indesign preflight to see if it catches anything to do with RGB to save yourself some time (I think CS2 has it) I'm on CS3
Check EPSs for colour values- (Check that they are not RGB)
Also are you using PMS or CMYK? Your printers rip may not be recognizing PMS swatches and therefore rejecting the files.
Hope this helps.

[Josh]

Can you export it to PDF and then try to print it from Acrobat or Reader?

[strev]

Originally Posted by Josh

Can you export it to PDF and then try to print it from Acrobat or Reader?

good idea!

[bradgreens]

Yes, exporting to PDF worked fine. Which is also good because because vendors seem to enjoy PDFs more than native docs nowadays (at least here). PDFs scare me though, once in a great while they get interpreted slightly different by the service provider.

I'm still going to scrub those EPS files for the problem, it may be a while until I get back with what happened. The embedded EPS files do have Pantones galore, and InDesigns Spot-to-Process may not be enough to cover the glitch that is causing the page to drop from spooling.

Preflight comes up clean, but does anyone know if it truly can pick up RGB through a linked EPS? I know Quark 6.5 certainly couldn't. I'm leaning toward too many spot colors in the linked files...