Please save as in different format like Tiff or EPS and try in your case.

But saving as layered tiffs are slower for me and I need to keep going back and forth between the layered file and the illustrator document. . . so a an EPS file is ok BUT not ideal. Can you tell me WHY these lines appear?

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda

I guess you know you should flatten the image before you save it as a tiff. You can keep the original placed image as a native Photoshop file, with its layers accessible, if you need to go back to it, but then, to update the image that's been placed in Illustrator, you would need to re-place another tiff version (saved as ProjectWhatever_1.tif, ProjectWhatever_2.tif and so on).

Honestly, I can't figure why you're having this trouble. I feel for you! Hope you're not on deadline!

Mara

In older than CS3 versions of Illustrator, I found taking over EPS files caused the least amount of problems. Sorry I don't have more advice!

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Perfectly Lost Designs

Is this a PSD? I have never had this problem with PSDs in illustrator. Are you adding an effect to them? Do you have a clipping mask? I need more details. If you could post an example, that would help too.

I have run into this issue as well, opening .psd or jpeg or even tiff in illustrator, from photoshop. Interestingly enough, when using live trace on an image brought to illustrator from photoshop, the lines get traced and cause slices in the image, as well.

Anyway, was this ever resolved?

Curious, why not just place your images? I'd recommend also using InDesign rather than Illustrator for your layouts...

That said, Illustrator likes to think sometimes that the 8bit preview image used to represent the image is the actual image.

Can you try your images in InDesign and see if the lines persist on print? Even in pdf you'll see lined artifacts but this won't mean your print will show it, so print is most revealing. If they do you know it's your images to blame.

Hopefully you aren't trying to print jpgs (CMYK jpgs especially!)?! Or anything other than 300dpi flattened tifs? I've found these hardly ever (won't say never!) error out or carry artifacts. You can set their 8 bit preview to tif which might help stave off the lines...

A related, but not exactly identical thread on CB:
http://creativebits.org/embed

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Powerpoint is not a design application

I am placing a .psd image (photo with transparency) into an illustrator document for a packaging file. There is no line in photoshop, but it is there in ilustrator. The .psd is 300dpi.

I'm having the same problem in InDesign CS3 with PSDs and TIFs. I want a specific type of drop shadow that I created behind images within text with a wraparound, so they HAVE to be transparent images.

Wherever the TIFs or PSDs are layered in InDesign and then export as a PDF, I get jaggy horizontal lines wherever the overlap occurs... ONLY when it's printed. The PDF looks fine onscreen, but when I print I get the lines.

This is ridiculously frustrating and the only thing I can think to do is compromise my design and go with regular, run-of-the-mill drop shadows. As far as I'm concerned, since EVERY single application I'm using is made by Adobe, this should not be happening.

If you ever encounter a problem with transparency the best way round it is to just create a flattened tif of the area where you want the effect (or a background of the entire page if necessary, depending on the design).

ID's drop shadows are nice, but don't always print well.

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Powerpoint is not a design application

We've been dealing with this a lot in CS2, but I believe it's fixed in CS3. The only way we've found around it is to go back into CS1 and resave.