CS4 Printing

Everything I print to my RIPit platemaker is upside down?!

I waited late to switch to CS4 so the bugs would all be fixed. Now that I have made the switch, I find I get wild negative images from actions that printed fine under CS2. Is this in fact a bug and is there a posted work around from Adobe? jc

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Ps CS4 prints/previews blank

I am unable to print from CS4: print preview and print output are both blank. However, CS2 (also on my system) prints fine. Any similar problems and/or fixes out there?

Have you applied the Photoshop 11.0.1 update?
What OS, etc. Please read this post by a forum host for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0
Thanks!

Photoshop CS4 Printer Controls will not center images

I have two Epson Printers-The Stylus Pro 4000 and the Stylus Photo 1280, both several years old. I have downloaded and installed the most recent drivers for each. When printing from CS4 to either printer, and using the "center image" choice, I cannot get the print to be centered with equal margins on opposing sides. I have read various articles on how to do this, but nothing seems to work. Any suggestions?

Thank you Jeff for your response. I have tried the approach of the
custom paper size, but it does not seem to work right on my
configuration. I will keep trying. Do any of your books deal with
another problem which i am having relative to my switch from PC
Windows XP to OSX relative to a concurrent switch from CS3 to CS4.
The color ICC printer profiles for my Epson 4000 have not been
recognized by CS4 printer dialog box, though Lightroom 2 does find
them. They still exist in a file in the Library. I am not sure
whether the OSX operating system and CS4 require a different format
for the profiles (ie. some connection with the Colorsync utiltity?)
In any event, I note your new book on CS4 is out. Would that deal
with this issue?
Dick Davidson
[email protected]
1140 Brantley Estates Drive
Altamonte Springs, Florida 32714

CS4 Print Presets --- CS5?

Are ID CS4 print presets compatible with CS5 and if so, how do I make the transfer?

Worked perfectly. Thanks.
Minor point. Can I sort them or choose the order in which they appear?

Photoshop CS4 printer driver

I installed the Photoshop CS4 printer driver (ipf6100) that I downloaded from Canon's website. When I chose export and choose the ipf6100 it gives me the error message
"Could not complete the export command because of a program error". How do I get the plugin working.

I am not understanding what your trying to do or the steps. When you install the plug in your saying there should be your printer listed in PS CS4 Export as a option to choose from? Do you have a 64 bit OS? If so my guess is that it is only a 32 bit plugin option and maybe you installed it in the 64 bit plug in folder? Or the opposite?

CS4 printing problem after changing printers

Windows7
Photoshop CS4
printer was HP Officejet Pro 8500
have many files created with this printer installed. They printed successfully, except for "usual sporadic" error of "needing to install a printer before able to print". Would shutdown Photoshop, bring it up and print.
Installed new printer HP Officejet Pro 8600.
Files created when 8500 in use will not print on 8600. Get same "usual sporadic" error, except shutdown doesn't resolve problem.
New files created after 8600 installed print fine.
Any ideas how to solve this now BIG problem?

On a hunch, try going through the printer selection process then press Done. Do this twice, but don't print. Then try to print.
If that doesn't work, after selecting the printer twice, save the PSD and shut down Photoshop, then restart it and load the file.
There was a glitch back then where printer settings were getting "staged" in some intermediate place, so that one literally had to make changes twice to get them to "stick".
If the above doesn't work, once you've selected the printer, try going through the [Page Setup] twice. I know there was a combination that would "flush" the changes through.
-Noel

Can't change my paper settings to print from Photoshop cs4 printer Epson

I've been trying for hours/days to get my printer to print a custom paper size for greetings cards to my Epson printer via the rear feed. I know it can be done because a friend helped me with it in the past but the setting did not save and they cant remember how they did it. I've been looking on forums and help on the internet but the settings people are saying to use are not available on my Photoshop.

I'm not using CS4 or an Epson (Canon and CS6), but is there a Print Settings option in which you can set a custom size?
Benjamin

InDesign CS4 Printing issue

Hi:
I use InDesign CS4 in my job as a church office manager. I print bulletins that are usually 3 letter-sized pages, landscape, 2-sided, and newsletters that are 2 11x17 pages, landscape, 2-sided. I'm working in Mac OS 10.5.8.
Until today, I was using a fairly old HP 8100dn printer. When I upgraded from CS3 to CS4 last summer, I found a strange thing: I couldn't print duplex on letter-sized paper from InDesign. No matter what settings I selected, the printing would not duplex. As a workaround, I had to export everything as a PDF and print from Acrobat, where the duplexing worked fine.
Weirdly, 11x17 duplex printing worked correctly from InDesign.
I never solved the problem, but when I posted this on the forum last summer, one responder said that it might have had something to do with the 8100's age and its PostScript Level 2 emulation.
Just today, my office got a new(er) printer, an HP 8150dn. This one has PostScript Level 3 emulation.
Precisely the same problem. Letter-sized won't duplex from ID; 11x17 will. Exporting letter-sized documents to PDF and printing from Acrobat is once again the workaround. It's not the worst thing in the world, but it is a bit of a hassle.
Does anyone have any sort of idea about why this is happening, or better, how it might be fixed?
Thanks much,
GT
PS: ID won't duplex when printing in portrait orientation on letter-sized paper, either.
Message was edited by: It doesn't work!

Well, I fixed it, I think… I googled "Printing issues in Mac OS," which led me to install Gutenprint 5.2.5 — whatever the heck that is — and suddenly duplex printing worked in both landscape and portrait on letter-sized paper.
Unfortunately, and yet not at all surprisingly, I now couldn't print to 11x17 at all. No matter what I did, the printer used Tray 2 (letter), or told me to put custom paper in Tray 1.
So, as a last-ditch attempt to resolve this before I jumped off the roof, I reset the printer to its factory defaults and deleted all traces of it from Mac OS's Printer and Fax window.
Then I created one new printer called "8150 (Gutenprint)" using the Gutenprint driver, and one called "8150 (11x17)" using the default HP driver, both using the same IP address. Lo and behold, when I select the one, I can print duplexed on letter size, and when I select the other, I can do the same on 11x17.
I don't know if this is the sort of thing that a real tech-head would condone, but it finally seems to work. Since I'd never be printing to both printers simultaneously, I figure I can live with this.
If anyone cares to explain to me in layman's terms what Gutenprint is all about, I'd love to be educated…
GT

InDesign CS4 printing weirdness

Hi:
I just upgraded, fairly painlessly, from CS3 to CS4. Following all of the updates, everything is working fine except for my most common print preset in InDesign.
I print short documents on 8.5x11 paper, 2-sided, landscape. No matter how many things I try, ID is printing the pages single-sided landscape. All of the settings are correct for the printer (HP 8100) — it's set for 2-sided and short-edge binding, but my documents simply will not print 2-sided. Interestingly, 11x17 2-sided landscape printing works exactly right.
I can do a workaround by exporting a PDF from ID and printing from Acrobat, but 1) that doesn't solve the problem and 2) printing from Acrobat is a little slower.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Gary

In an experiment, I found that letter-sized, 2-sided landscape printing works perfectly from ID CS4 to a Xerox Phaser 6250. Unfortunately, the HP 8100 is my main printer.
Further, wondering if the conversion from CS3 to 4 had something to do with it, I created a new document in ID CS4 and tried to print 2-sided landscape with the same results. It also didn't work printing portrait 2-sided.
I deleted the HP printer, downloaded the latest drivers from HP, reinstalled them, and restarted the computer. At some point, to my shock, I managed to get ID to print correctly — but then it refused to print 2-sided portrait. That was the only time my landscape printing worked.
I've now lost track of how many times I've deleted the printer and reinstalled. If I set the printer up using IPP, it doesn't communicate with the computer for some reason. When I use Line Printer Daemon or HP JetDirect Socket I can print, but the problem still persists. (And still, 11x17 prints 2-sided with no problems.) Also, Word, which I try to avoid whenever I can, prints correctly 2-sided.
I've mainly managed to waste huge amounts of paper and give myself a splitting headache.
There's something up for sure between ID CS4 and HP when dealing with 2-sided letter-sized pages, whatever the orientation.
Gary

CS4 Printing Problems...too dark

I am having a problem with prints coming out much too dark. I have CS4 on a Windows 7, 64 bit......I have the same problem with either my canon pixma pro 9500 or by epson stylus r2400............
After an hour on the phone with epson I was able to get good prints using lightroom....so...
It is not the printer, not my calibration...the problem is using cs4.
I have gone though all the protocols.....using photoshop to manage color, etc etc..........
Are there any thoughtsd out there? even my epson guy felt the issue must be in cs4 somewhere as I printed fine in lightroom.
Thanks in advance

I am having the same problem about 50% of the time.

PS CS4 printing dark; LR 2.2 printing fine

Printing with the same profile, same intent, same computer, same printer. PS and LR do the color management and the printer doesn't.
At some point with CS3, PS started printing dark. This has carried over to CS4. Lightroom printing is fine.
Ideas? I don't have a clue.
Thanks, Hal

Hi DYP,
I apologize if people thought I was making political or some other kind of statement. Yes, help is what I'm after.
OS: 10.5.5
Printer: Epson 2200
Driver: 3.09 (found that in /Library/Printer/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/SP2200.plugin)
LR 2.2: in the Print Setting, I'm using No Color Management and in the Print Job panel Color Management is set to an appropriate profile from Ilford matching the paper, inkset, and printer, Rendering Intent is Relative.
PS CS4: Color Handling is set to Photoshop Manages Colors, the same profile is being used as in LR, Rendering Intent is Relative Colorimetric.
Driver settings: Color management is set to No Color Adjustment
I've tested with the same photo on several occasions. I typically use a working space of ProPhoto RGB. Images look the same in both PS and LR on screen.
Haven't done anything with a control photo. Don't know anything about them.
I profile the monitor monthly with a Spyder.
When I say that the prints look dark in PS compared to LR, I'm guessing it's around 2 to 3 EV darker. Color is OK.
A few months ago, when I profiled my monitor (iMac), I set the gamma to 2.2 on advice from others. At that point, I noticed that my prints were dark. I subsequently profiled it back to 1.8. I believe that printing with PS CS3 was fine at that point. I wasn't printing with LR then. I upgraded to PS CS4. I may have changed my default color space from Adobe RGB to ProPhoto RGB. But, I would think that it would just get out of gamut issues if this was the problem.
Thanks, Hal

CS4 Printing in an Action creates a negative image print

I have CS4 on a Windows platform, as a trial. I wanted to see if the printing issues that keep me from using CS3 in production were solved before I bought it.
Pretty much right out of the chute, I ran into problems. I use actions to get photos formatted to print. The action at the end, it calls Print (in CS2 was called Print with Preview). This Print step is done with modal control to allow different printers or settings to selected.
This action works fine in CS2 and in CS3. In CS4, the print comes out as a negative image. I have deleted the step from the action and re-recorded it in CS4, still comes out as an negative. Interestingly, if I use a CS2 Print command (not the new Print Preview version) in the action, then it works fine. The problem is extremely repeatable in different action or to different printers. If I disable the print step in the action and just print it without the action, it works fine.
This to me seems a very repeatable bug.. hopefully it gets on the list to fix.
Allen

I waited late to switch to CS4 so the bugs would all be fixed. Now that I have made the switch, I find I get wild negative images from actions that printed fine under CS2. Is this in fact a bug and is there a posted work around from Adobe? jc

Photoshop CS4 printer selection failure

Wondering if anyone might know what's happening here....
Using Photoshop CS4, Windows 7 SP1, Novell Network Printers.
There are 2 problems:
1) In the print dialog box, no matter what printer is selected, the page setup button has settings for a different printer.
2) After clicking print on the print dialog box, the system print dialog box has the wrong printer selected. The selected printer is random depending on what printers are installed. It is not the default printer necessarily.

I am not understanding what your trying to do or the steps. When you install the plug in your saying there should be your printer listed in PS CS4 Export as a option to choose from? Do you have a 64 bit OS? If so my guess is that it is only a 32 bit plugin option and maybe you installed it in the 64 bit plug in folder? Or the opposite?

Photoshop CS4 printing everything in dots???

My Photoshop CS4 has been running fine and then this past week I printed a document I created and the whole thing came out as a series of small dots...including the fonts. Also, I tried printing various high resolution stock photos that have printed fine from Photoshop in the past, and they all came out dotted too.
The document I created was 8.5 x 11, 300 dpi, CMYK. In order to determine if the problem was my printer, I saved the file as a .jpg and opened it in Windows Picture & Fax Viewer. I printed the document from that program and I got a great print...no dots! So it seems it has something to do with Photoshop and I am clueless. I haven't changed any of the prefs or settings, so I'm not sure what is going on.
Does anyone know what might be happening? I appreciate any wisdom or insight, as I have none!

From your Photoshop Print dialog (i.e., the window that opens when you choose File - Print), press the Print Settings button.
Ensure all your printer settings, including those in Advanced sections, are set to your preferences. Chances are something's set to "Draft" mode or to a minimal dot pitch.
You don't need to actually print something to get these settings to "stick". Just press the Done button.
-Noel

Adobe Creative Suite CS4, printer, dongle ALL refuse to work with Mavericks

I have made the disastrous mistake of 'upgrading' to OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Now my HP printer won't work. My 4G dongle with my laptop no longer works and EE can't help at all with finding a suitable driver. And my Adobe Creative Suite CS4 is no longer compatible and isn't even supported any longer. So my 27-inch iMac is now just a piece of worthless junk.
Can someone please advise?

I think you'd be much better off asking in the Acrobar forum, Acrobat

Photoshop cs4 printing issue on HP 7680

Suddenly, my HP OfficeJet 7680 printing from PS CS4 (Vista) - prints only a portion of the photo. For instance, an 8.5 x 11 photo starts out fine, then starts losing pixels as the page progresses. The photo's pixels also shift as it goes.
Generic printing through Windows' photo printers works fine.
any thoughts? thanks!!
Dana

Believe it or not you might need to reinstall.
The HP drivers that were installed on my MacBook were the PowerPC version (as opposed to the Intel version) and I had problems. The issue was solved by re-installing the OS which in turn re-installed the print drivers.
I would try any other advice first, though. A reinstall is a pretty major solution to what could be a minor problem.

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