What it is is a lighter tone around the object that has the transparency -exactly the same size and shape of the transparent portion. I don't have a sample because it happened at school on a mac and photoshop and illustrator cs -like I said when I did it at home with version 7 and 9 it worked fine. The printer there is a laser black and white printer so that could be the problem. Or maybe its just the mac software I have a PC. Someone try this who has CS if you have the time. Create an image in photoshop with a trans background -save as a .psd and bring it into illustrator by file -> place. Print it and see if anything funny happens -like I said if you have the time. I would appreciate it -I'm on the verge of upgrading to CS and I don't want to if I 'm going to get this problem -thanks all