Printing on Canon IPF 700 from Mac

[Gorazd]

Hi
Is there anybody who is using this postscript printer on Mac. We have problems with lines at any angle to be printed much thicker than horizontal or vertical ones. Printig from PC works great. Not to mention, that drawings from ilustrator or other sw prints well .

[Anonymous]

I'm not familiar with this printer but there are often problems translating technical (CAD) drawings to Postscript. Postscript automatically tries to smooth diagonal lies by adding dots and thus width. Illustrator is probably OK because it anticipates the problem. I have seen this in years past but not recently with high res printers. There is also a problem that output to PDF or Postscript will tend to heavy up all lines (about 0.1mm) but I have found this to be consistent at all angles with the printers I have used recently. Perhaps if you save to PDF and print from Preview or Acrobat it will work better.

[Gorazd]

Thank you for clarifying this CAD PS problems for me. PDF doesnt help either.

PS: Isnt't it a bit late in California right now ??

[Thomas Holm]

This is probably an Apple and printer manufacturer problem. Illustrator prints fine because it writes it's own Postscript and sends to the printer. Other apps use Apple's PDF engine to produce printer output.

You might try to install Acrobat with the Adobe PDFwriter virtual printer and produce pdfs by printing with Adobe PDFwriter, and then print the pdfs.

Next open these pdfs in Acrobat and print to the printer from there.

Next try Acrobat's Print as Picture option. It sends pixels to the printer and bypasses the printer's rasterizer completely.

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
Next try Acrobat's Print as Picture option. It sends pixels to the printer and bypasses the printer's rasterizer completely.

Great tip Thomas. I've been using Acrobat for years and didn't know about this one. Thanks!

[Thomas Holm]

Matthew wrote:
Great tip Thomas. I've been using Acrobat for years and didn't know about this one. Thanks!

Thanks to you, Matthew!
Not that it's very obvious - in Acrobat's (or the free Adobe Reader's) Print dialog, to the low left, there is an "Advanced..." button- klick it and you'll get yet another dialog. In this one, there are some options that I don't understand and have never used, but the last one says "Print as Picture".

In the old Classic MacOS, this was the only way to print to cheap inkjets that couldn't handle Postscript from Postscript programs like Illustrator or Freehand.

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
In the old Classic MacOS, this was the only way to print to cheap inkjets that couldn't handle Postscript from Postscript programs like Illustrator or Freehand.

So this is kind of like PrintToPICT. Cool.