We have had some issues recently with duotones not printing from QuarkXpress 7.3, It’s very strange but once a duotone is placed in Quark, all you get when printing to a proof is a black or grey box, however after searching the blogs we found a remedy.

Import a Tiff with a blank or white background into a separate picturebox the same size as the original duotone, but make sure that it is in front of the original image. Then in the colour palette; make the background none - hey presto the original image prints perfectly.

Just another quirk of Quark it seems perhaps we should call it QuirkXpress (Duotone images print fine from InDesign). 

by Tech Help team