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OK, here goes my problem, I have a Mac g4 running Os X, Freehand MX, HP 4v Laserjet, I have tried installing it using Severeral, over 22 different PPDs and I cannot get it to print Halftones...it will print a Gradient but not a half tone dot that i can burn to a screen. I have tried changing the dots to 35/600 with no change in gradient, I know its probably something very simple that I am over looking but its about to drive me to pull my hair out.
Any help is appreciated
Brandon
HP did a 4P version - that is a Postscript printer, I don't think that yours is Postscript and therefore doesn't do halftones, try downloading Ghostscript.
Its a Post Script printer, It was working fine until just a couple days ago, I am sure its just something very very simple and I have just over looked it.
thanks for any and all comments/ help
OK, here goes my problem, I have a Mac g4 running Os X, Freehand MX, HP 4v Laserjet, I have tried installing it using Severeral, over 22 different PPDs and I cannot get it to print Halftones...it will print a Gradient but not a half tone dot that i can burn to a screen. I have tried changing the dots to 35/600 with no change in gradient, I know its probably something very simple that I am over looking but its about to drive me to pull my hair out.
Any help is appreciated
Brandon
35/600? I'm guessing you're talking about 35 lip and the second number would be for screen angle. Normally 45, not 600. Unless you've gone into the printer itself and made resolution changes there which should not be necessary. As for the PPD, it's not a situation where you go searching for one that works. When you install the printer, the PPDs get installed with it. It's a matter of knowing where they reside on your computer. Unfortunately, I haven't done that in so long I can't remember where they get installed to. Do a search inside your system folder to locate the correct PPD. I used to do this occasionally on that same printer probably 7 or 8 years ago.
I have found the correct PPD, I have even "re-installed" the printer using that PPD, and still the same "gradient" look with no Halftones dot to be able to burn into the screen, Thats why I seem to think it something very simple that i am overlooking...just not sure what that is just yet.
Anyone else? thanks Brandon
The art I am printing is a simple logo with 2 color fading into each other. I tried sepping it in Illustrator using 36 lpi for a 156 mesh screen with a 22.5 degree angle with an elipse pattern......Nothing..
The art I am printing is a simple logo with 2 color fading into each other. I tried sepping it in Illustrator using 36 lpi for a 156 mesh screen with a 22.5 degree angle with an elipse pattern......Nothing..
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