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Hi everyone, I just finished with getting some DESIGNER parts over into 3DS and getting everything set up for printing. I printed to a .TIF file format for importing into PageMaker 5.0. The bottom line is this. I didn't exactly get WSIWYG. The colors were off pretty bad and the shading and reflective surfaces suffered greatly, as well as some parts that should have been opaque were translucent and you could see some of the parts on the back side of the assembly by looking through the part. What is the best recommended way to output a rendering to get a quality hardcopy for proof or client approval of an idea. How do I make sure that what looks like a Pantone Color prints as the same pantone color. How do I ensure that I get the best output possible from 3DS. After showing the client the (in my opinion "really crappy") images, they were excited and I feel that they will want more. Only I need to figure out what is not going right here so I can keep everybody happy. Thanks, Zack Lyon P.S. why would a part appear to be see through? I did a UNIFY NORMALS on it and it went away. Was this the right thing to do? Should I do this on all parts that I don't want to be see-through?