vigilante
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Somebody please help, or shoot me, one of the two.
I have a simple graphic made up of mostly solid colors. A very important color used is pure greys, three variations 35%, 50% and 60% grey. Also my font colors are set to pure 100% black toner as is pretty typical for CMKY type.
I cannot seem to get our printer to use pure back toner except from Photoshop. Any other program, any other file format, will print using the color toners. In fact, if I export a TIF from PS and then stick that TIF back into a new PS document, the 35% pure grey turns into ZERO PERCENT grey and only uses color toners!
I've tried exporting to TIF, PDF, JPG with no luck. I've placed the PSD directly into an Illustrator document and it still won't print pure grey. In fact, when I place the PSD into Illustrator and use the eye dropper, the grey color has changed, but if I embed the PSD, the grey goes back to the pure grey. However, it still changes the color when I print. I cannot print a pure grey from Illustrator directly no matter what I try!
I have been reading endlessly about color workflows and embedded profiles etc etc, nothing works. I've saved the PSDs with and without embedded profile but it makes no difference to Illustrator, because Illustrator never prints a pure grey anyway.
So why is it that no program on my entire freaking computer can print a pure black toner grey color except Photoshop?
The boss won't accept this, because only I have PS, they want TIFs or PDFs so that anybody can print these templates who needs them, but if they don't print pure grey, it looks like crap!
In my print settings in PS, I have it set for PS to manage colors, and the printer profile set to SWOP v2. When I print from Illustrator, there is the option for Illustrator to manage colors, however SWOP is not one of the options for the printer profile. In fact, when looking through the printer profile list, ALL of them are RGB variants! The document itself is CMYK SWOP v2 but in the print dialog box, there is no CMYK or SWOP option for the printer profile. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
The bigger issue is that I can't print from a TIF or a PDF or any format except directly from Photoshop to get my pure greys and it's driving me nuts!
Preferably, I'd like to export my PSDs to PDF and make sure the PDFs print correctly no matter whose computer prints it.
Any ideas?
(PS, I know that the printer has a lot to do with it, I'm using a Sharp MX-3110N. This is a pro printer that is >$16k)
I have a simple graphic made up of mostly solid colors. A very important color used is pure greys, three variations 35%, 50% and 60% grey. Also my font colors are set to pure 100% black toner as is pretty typical for CMKY type.
I cannot seem to get our printer to use pure back toner except from Photoshop. Any other program, any other file format, will print using the color toners. In fact, if I export a TIF from PS and then stick that TIF back into a new PS document, the 35% pure grey turns into ZERO PERCENT grey and only uses color toners!
I've tried exporting to TIF, PDF, JPG with no luck. I've placed the PSD directly into an Illustrator document and it still won't print pure grey. In fact, when I place the PSD into Illustrator and use the eye dropper, the grey color has changed, but if I embed the PSD, the grey goes back to the pure grey. However, it still changes the color when I print. I cannot print a pure grey from Illustrator directly no matter what I try!
I have been reading endlessly about color workflows and embedded profiles etc etc, nothing works. I've saved the PSDs with and without embedded profile but it makes no difference to Illustrator, because Illustrator never prints a pure grey anyway.
So why is it that no program on my entire freaking computer can print a pure black toner grey color except Photoshop?
The boss won't accept this, because only I have PS, they want TIFs or PDFs so that anybody can print these templates who needs them, but if they don't print pure grey, it looks like crap!
In my print settings in PS, I have it set for PS to manage colors, and the printer profile set to SWOP v2. When I print from Illustrator, there is the option for Illustrator to manage colors, however SWOP is not one of the options for the printer profile. In fact, when looking through the printer profile list, ALL of them are RGB variants! The document itself is CMYK SWOP v2 but in the print dialog box, there is no CMYK or SWOP option for the printer profile. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.
The bigger issue is that I can't print from a TIF or a PDF or any format except directly from Photoshop to get my pure greys and it's driving me nuts!
Preferably, I'd like to export my PSDs to PDF and make sure the PDFs print correctly no matter whose computer prints it.
Any ideas?
(PS, I know that the printer has a lot to do with it, I'm using a Sharp MX-3110N. This is a pro printer that is >$16k)