Indesign cs4 printing issues

i have recently connected my imac to magicolor 2550 and have been trying to print indesign file. Printing does happen but with so many text characters missing. Image is ok. If i converted it to a pdf files the printing is ok. previous to 2550 i had 2450 and with this the printing of indesign file was ok. Does anyone know what the problem is?

Try this: go into the print driver (the "Setup..." button at the bottom of InDesign's print dialog box) and set your custom paper size there. Then, back in the InDesign dialog, set the Paper Size to "Defined By Driver."
-Bill

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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

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-Bill

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InDesign CS4 Printing help

Hello,
I realize that "two-sided" copying isn't a function of InDesign however, after I installed CS4, i have lost the ability to do a "two-sided" print. I tried to adjust the settings in my print dialogue boxes but that did nothing either.
Can anyone give help or tips? I duplex a lot and I need to figure this out!
Thanks,

I upgraded to InDesign CS4 a month or so ago. I'm using a 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X 10.5.7, and having trouble printing to two different printers. I had a margin issue with an HP Color Laser 5550, where I never had one before. Then today, I discovered that I could not duplex print to a HP Laser 3005, again this was never a problem with CS3.
So needless to say this thread was required reading for me.
Of course, the pdf work-around worked. But, I wanted to get to the bottom of this. Well, putting together info from a couple of different posts, I think I've discovered the duplexing problem (at least).
In the past, I have religiously used the Page Setup tab in the printer window to set paper size, and when I did so the Set-up Paper Size would automatically show "Defined by Driver."
Well, now, one can follow the same process (setting the paper size in the driver via Page Setup), and when one returns to the main printing menu, the Set-up Paper Size "window" will not have changed, in other words, it will not say "Defined by Driver" but rather "Letter" or "Legal." When I manually changed the setting to "Defined by Driver," lo and behold, I could duplex!
So the theory espoused above about whether the printer or InDesign was controlling the printer does seem to be the key issue. If you're using garden-variety desktop printers, you're most likely emulating Postscript, and the InDesign is expecting Postscript accuracy and not finding it.
Hope this helps.
--ws

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1. In Photoshop with no documents open: Edit Color Settings. By CMYK, Custom CMYK. Black Generation "Maximum"
2. Hit OK, but NOT to the whole Color Settings dialog, just the Custom CMYK dialog. Again in the CMYK pull down, "Save CMYK" Put the profile in your Color Sync folder where InDesign will recognize it. After you save it CANCEL. You don't really want to alter your Photoshop color settings, you just want to create the Max Black Generation profile
3. In InDesign. Create a top most layer on master page. Create a white box to fill the whole page. Set Blend Mode to "Color" Lock the layer.
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Unfortunately, the transparency is white, and multiply won't work for that--white/light colors disappear under that setting. I did try it with screen and overlay settings, as well as normal, and had the same results. I also dialed back the transparency to 99% (from 50%), but got the same result. Only when I took the transparency off completely (100%) did the box appear again in the PDF.
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Indesign CS6 Printing Issues

Having looked at the forums and found Adobe support less than helpful I am hopping that the comunite will be able to help me out on these frustrating issues.
We are having a number of issues while trying to print from InDesign CS6 to our OKI C830 printer
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6. Go to okidata.com and click on "Support" at top of page. In the grey area, select download a driver.
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I have just been looking at the "Print Booklet" function in CS4 and was hopping you could help with some advice.
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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.
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Thanks,
Gary

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