psi

Hey Guys,

I have seen throughout these posts that people have been exporting a PS file from Photoshop.

I have been printing to PS files from Illustrator for ages but haven't got the option of printing to a postscript file in Photoshop.

Should I print to a PDF and enter all the details in the "Output" dialogue....and then open that in GhostView?

Thanks

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Naga

To use postscript output with separations,
change to CMYK
start the print dialog
check Show More Mptions
choose Color Management in the Output/Color Management dialog
under Print Space, choose Separations (only available, when your image is in CMYK)
go to Output dropdown and choose your output option
choose printer and print

 

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psi

Here is the spanner....

We don't use this for printing out CMYK seps. We don't do full colour work at all. It is only for outputting single colour greyscale images.

So converting to CMYK won't work for me because I need to keep the image greyscale.

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Naga

When you have pressed the Print button, you get a second print dialog, where you can choose "Print to file".
I just tried it on an image, that I converted to grayscale.
It works for me. (PS7.1 on XP)

 

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psi

Great...thanks....will try.

Thanks Naga

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Solmu

Quote: Originally Posted by customprintz If your printer has postscript do you still need Ghostscript and Ghostview??

Depends if it's full postscript level 3 (in which case, no you don't) or a modern crappy emulated postscript (in which case, yes you do).

If the printer's old or high end it might be fine. If it's a modern consumer printer, it's extremely unlikely.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Solmu Depends if it's full postscript level 3 (in which case, no you don't) or a modern crappy emulated postscript (in which case, yes you do). If the printer's old or high end it might be fine. If it's a modern consumer printer, it's extremely unlikely.

i am using a HP 5100tn an printing on folex laserfilm. I think it has postscript level 3, but Might only work for Windows but i use a Mac.

 

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suomaf

Hey guys,

Great tutorial, and I got a lot of information with this, quick question. If I wanted to do a 4 color process together using ghostview do I have to follow these steps outlined in Full Color Screen Printing with Photoshop Screensilk THEN print it color by color using ghostview or would i be ok just doing it directly using photoshop and fiddling in the postscript print options to separate the angles and such?

Cheers,

Suo

 

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tpitman

No. If you're using Ghostscript/Ghostview, you don't follow the instructions at that site. That's a way to generate halftones without using a postscript printer or a RIP such as Ghostscript. What you'll do using Ghostscript/Ghostview is to do all of your separating in the Photoshop print dialog box, as you've indicated, specifying separations, then screen angle, dot shape, and frequency, then print the job to file, then open that file in Ghostview. Ghostscript handles all of the postscript info.

 

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ole Jobe

With later versions of Corel, you will get a generic printer driver (in X4 it is "intuit interal printer"). You can use this instead of downloading a HP postscript printer driver.

 

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tpitman

Also, if you have Adobe's Creative Suite, you'll find that there's an "printer" named Adobe PDF. That's what I use for everything, since there are no fixed output sizes such as Letter, Tabloid, etc. Maybe it's in there if all you have is Photoshop.

 

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suomaf

Hey guys,

So I finally got round to testing it and I am facing some problems, it seems that no matter what settings i do, my output still prints the same size in halftones. Is there anyone who uses photoshop + ghostscript/view that might be able to guide me?

Cheers,

Suo

 

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tpitman

Quote: Originally Posted by suomaf Hey guys, So I finally got round to testing it and I am facing some problems, it seems that no matter what settings i do, my output still prints the same size in halftones. Is there anyone who uses photoshop + ghostscript/view that might be able to guide me? Cheers, Suo

What settings are you using in the Photoshop separations dialog box when you go to "print"?

 

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justme54s

Top man!! Thanks for this invaluable info.

 

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