Indesign printing prob
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- airey
hey,
anyone had any problems printing from indesign (latest vs) to Epson Printers (we've got the Epson Stylus Pro 4000). the files print well from illust and both apps have the same colour settings in the prefs?!>
any leads / info appreciated.
- BonSeff0
are there paper settings in the print menu? i had similar problems with a hp designjet
- Beech0
I had some problems with ID 2 (not with a epson printer) so i pdf'd and printed from acrobat. worked well.
- airey0
we were told to turn off all print specs in the print dialogue and then the rip software takes over using the PS file which is transferred.
i'll try the PDF option and see how it goes.
thanks for the info again peoples!
- BonSeff0
do you use a RIP for your epson
- airey0
yeah, it came with RIP software and i've updated it a few days ago. my boss is the one actually using it so i can't speak from experience but apprently he feels that Indesign is not pulling it's weight in the old printing department.
- abizzyman0
If your printing to an epson desktop inkjet... I'd lose the rip and just set up the epson...
... even over the network is fine - just as long as each computer has the appropriate drivers for the epson - and then selects that printer to print from.
kill the rip! get the soft!
- abizzyman0
InDesign (you will find) is the way to go... the only way to go - destroys Quark.
If the RIP came w/the printer (which is odd that you'd need a RIP for an epson unless it's some large-format epson)... I'd check the adobe forums / tech sheets for any issues w/that specific printer.
- airey0
yeah, we have to use the rip. the printer is like a metre wide and cost about $3000 so it's not just your usual desktop jobbies.
it's pretty insane, it can print on anything up to 2mm (or approx) and you can use canvas stock or web-fed stock. it's great. just don't use bloody indesign with it apparently!
agin, it could be user-error who knows!
- BonSeff0
i still use quark 4 in classic cause it works and im a fogey
i have q6 and indesign, but good ol q4 gives me smooth sailin
*peels out rascal scooter
- airey0
yeah, we just moved over from Quark 4. it was good (enough) but indesign is pretty useful.
i haven't seen quark 6 though. we mainly swapped as a whole studio upgrade to Indesign cost about the same as 1 upgrade for quark.
- Beech0
i don't know how you can handle
- Beech0
os9 i drives me crazy
(hmm my post got cu int half)
- BonSeff0
q6 is a mess.
when we upgraded the serial # was like 30 characters long. cost like 3 hundy and no manual.
- airey0
yeah i love quarks handle on piracy (or whatever makes them do this). make the serial number really friggin long, that'll help. i mean, who's going to use a photocopier? plus as a bonus we piss of the only people who bother to actually upgrade and not turncoat over to indesign. a company that cares...
- BonSeff0
i had a long hard faught tech support battle with quark and the hp RIP people. i had a problem to solve and they pointed fingers at eachother. i finally had to trouble shoot it myself.
i went to art school damnit. that shit is supposed to just work. my IT guy dont give a crap about macs, so it was up to me to pan it out
bah
- Beech0
lol
bonSeff: i know your pain ... all too well. My last job they had a colour post script printer. To save a few hundred bucks they bought some weird non-federation backwater brand (they didn't even have a website for ****s sake) I had many battles with it and them. some I won ... most i lost.
- abizzyman0
today's tech-support people have really weird 'outsourced' accents.
- Blofeldt0
I find that if i print directly from In Design the colours come out a bit dull. I tend to export as an EPS or pdf rather than send to print from ID itself
- flickster0
We had Epson Photo 1280 printers, and I find that printing from Indesign directly I get better results then from printing from Acrobat or PS. It's weird. When I print from PS everything is much darker.
- MLPROJECT0
the problems we had with our epson at work this summer were with the onboard rip... since then we switched and set up poster shop to handle all jobs going out to all the epson/HPs... haven't had a problem since.
aside from that, i've had tons of problems printing directly from indesign to the epson - mainly with the page rotating when it prints - if its set to print landscape, it'll print portrait and cut off some of the print and vice-versa