Photo and dropshadow won't print.

[etnoc]

I'm new at InDesign and I could really use some help!

I have an InDesign document with 4 layers:

Text
Dropshadowed Text
A stroked border
A placed Tiff photo (CMYK) with some transparency.

The document displays and prints fine on my inkjet printer, but when I export it to PDF the photo on the bottom layer won't print and the dropshadow disappears. If I remove the photo layer the dropshadow prints fine. But even if I delete all layers save the photo, the photo still won't print.

I'm currently using PDF/X-1a:2001, but I've tried all the various PDF options. My CS2 Suite is set for North American Prepress 2, though I've also tried North America General Purpose 2 and using an RGB version of my tiff (embedded and placed). And I've tried removing the photo's transparency and playing with the Transparency Blend Space. Nothing I've tried seems to work.

If it helps, when I convert to PDF I get the following warning: “The preset specifies source profiles that don't match the current color settings file. Profiles specified by the settings color profile will be used.”

Thanks for reading this and for any advice.

[G4pj]

This may or may not work, but you said the image is RGB. Go to the ink manager, you can access it from the swatch palette or the separations preview palette, and check convert to process color. This will force the image to be CMYK and not RGB. Seems like the effects don't take too well to spot colors and RGB at times.

[etnoc]

Thanks for the suggestion. I checked and my swatches are all process colors. But I think the problem was my printer. When I installed the newest driver to my HP Inkjet 5850, suddenly everything worked! Before I tried the new driver, I checked the "print as image" box in the Advanced section of the Print dialog box, and that also worked. [The credit for the fix goes to a suggestion I saw on Adobe's Acrobat forum.]