[DigitalInkArts]

I am having a serious issue and have spent two days trying to figure it out with no such luck. I have a 3 color design and I am using Photoshop / color range/ select color/ and then saving the 3 colors with an under base and expanding pixels. Everything works great But I can not get registration marks to those channels when I print.

I have tried using the registration marks in Photoshop cs6 to print when output to epson but when I select 12x12 paper those marks can not be seen on the final print. Unless I select to fit page. Then I lose the entire size of the design. I actually dont care about that. But why doesnt it show in the seps?

Why cant I figure this out? ( maybe don't answer that? lol )

 

[Fbermudez]

You didn't mention what size is your print? It's probably larger than your paper that's why they only show when you hit fit to print.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

My image is 11 x11 and I am out putting it on a 12 x 12 sheet.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

Its like Photoshop doesnt see the 12 x 12 area. The epson settings allow it. I wish they had registration marks in their interface. But Photoshops preview area on the design is just a little off and it wont show unless I scale to fit. The design has to be 11 x 11. ugh..

 

[RaiderFred1]

what epson printer are you using? I use the epson workforce 1100 and i have to enter the size of the paper im printing on in the settings. then save that as an option that I select every time I print my film positives.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

I am using an Epson 1400. I too have custom user settings. Even though 12 x 12 is already in that list, I have options like mirror, gloss and fast print unchecked, so I dont have to click them each time.

I had to make a compromise for Photoshop to see it. That was making it 11 by 11 and just slightly dropping my actual design under 11 inches. I suppose I can live with that. But what will happen when I want a 13 x17 design? I guess I should go find out. I bet it wont work!

edit. It worked.

I just have to drop an inch. It works like that for everything.

12 x12, must be 11 x11
13x19 must be 12 x18 and so on.

Very strange. I dont know if I should uninstall. I have tried it in cs6 and cs3. Its the same in both.

It just seems like the reg marks want to lay on the outer corner of the size I want to print. But if I make it a little smaller its fine. Makes no sense.

 

[sben763]

DJ. It frustrating but what you have to do is go into the print preview. Click on the reg marks icon in the preview. Then drag them back into your page. For what ever reason it put them off the page even when there is plenty of room.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

I actually tried that but when i dragged them back into the print view it also made my image to print smaller. I didnt know if it actually was so I didnt print it. I knew if I had to do that for the other colors there was no way I would be able to drag them to ever line up with each other.

So is that just a view thing or is it actually resizing my image?

 

[jgabby]

I use the Add Registration Targets script

and add them in the channel
EasyArt Downloads

So I print What I see

 

[monkeystylz]

I probably do it the hard way and I use the costom shape tool and select the crosshair and just use the ruler to get every registration mark perfect. Only good thing is I can make the registration mark as big as I want and if it's not thick enough I just add a 2 point stroke to the layer before I duplicate it

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[sben763]

If you click on the reg mark icon it shouldn't resize the image. You don't need to to drag for each color as reset them once and all pages they will print in the same place

 

[DigitalInkArts]

If you click on the reg mark icon it shouldn't resize the image. You don't need to to drag for each color as reset them once and all pages they will print in the same place

I guess maybe I am not doing it right? I can take screen pics. But when I try to put the curser on my reg marks in photoshop I can not pull them. I can only grab the corner of the page dot and pull. That resizes everything.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

https://imageshack.com/i/jw3p5bj

 

[TLK]

Why not make your own reg marks? Then put them on a new layer. Place them as close as you want to the image. Select all on that layer > copy > paste in place on each of the seps in another layer if you want. They're exactly where you want them. It takes a little bit longer but not 2 days!

 

[DigitalInkArts]

I did make my own marks. They are on the original layer. But when I sep the colors it makes a new layer after you save each individual channel. Those marks will not appear on them. This is where the whole problem started..

Edit. Paste in place works well enough on the channels. I can go with that.

 

[TLK]

Sorry, those reg marks on the last post look like printer reg marks.

I've always put my own reg marks onto each layer after splitting the channels, after seps are done.

I do one layer of reg marks where I want them, then copy and paste in place on each of the other seps.

I'm also using the latest Photoshop and an Epson 1400. Not sure why you can't see them if you're doing that. Sorry.

 

[DigitalInkArts]

You are correct TLK. Those are the printer Reg marks from the Printer screen. I have since been able to load copy and paste in place my own Reg Marks. I never thought to do that, I dont know why.

I think too long on trying to figure it out, patience thin, Trying to re invent a wheel, etc.

 

[sben763]

Its probably easier now to just paste a set. I went into photoshop CS 6 and the dialog box for the reg marks has been removed. When my PC that had CS4 on it went down and the install disc had been damaged I bought CS6. That's when I discovered the screen button had been removed, and some other features I had used almost daily. Since then I almost exclusively Corel. Adobe seems to have gone a little backwards in some features.