PNG for print

I have a number of files where I have imported a graphic into Illustrator as a PNG in order to have a transparent aspect to the graphic.
But when I print the transprent quality is lost and you get a flatterned version of the PNG instead.
Is there a file format I can save in when producing my graphics in photoshop which give the same working characteristics as a PNG but that will print exactly what I'm seeing on screen?

Excellent. Sometimes the answers just so obvious!
Cheers for takin the time

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I know it's taboo to talk about PNG for printing.
But I can't find and I've searched the forums - there was a post made about embedding colour profiles a while ago.
I know PNG is a RGB only format, but I'm 36.8% sure I read something about embedding either RGB or ... wait for it CMYK profiles into PNG files.
If anyone can shed any light on this - and how about PNG for print - I've been against it for a long time - but it is a lossless format, it can carry 64 bit data.
I know I know - but I thought I'd ask anyway - see what people think.

You can't save a PNG with a profile out of Photoshop, but it looks like you can embed one via the image events scripts that ship with OSX (/Library/Scripts/ColorSync/embed). Unfortunately ID ignores the embedded profile and uses the document's assigned profile instead. PNGs do respond to ID's RGB profile and the RGB profile will have an effect on the CMYK separation when it happens.
Here's ProPhoto and sRGB:
From your ID document you can also assign a profile, which conflicts with the doc's profile, by selecting the png and choosing Image Color Settings.... So, you could assign AdobeRGB as your doc's profile and assign sRGB to all your pngs.

Can I use png format images when sending an iphoto book for printing?

Writing an iPhoto book, I want to use some photographs taken by friends, and these photos are in png format. Will they work when I upload them for printing?

Dear Larry
Thank you very much for the information. I hate pressing buttons when I am not sure of what will happen!
Many thanks
Chris

Want to create an oval vignette in photoshop elements 10 with transparent background for printing w

I am fairly new to PSE and I want to create an oval vignette in Photoshop Elements 10 with transparent background for printing on white paper using MS Publisher. Using the white background on inverse selection makes a slight line impression and either it should have a defined "frame" or nothing.
Appreciate any guidance.

Try with the Elliptical marquee tool:
On the tool's option bar set feather 25-40 px (experiment)
Drag out the Ellipse to embrace the object
Go to Layer>new>layer via copy, or CTRL+J
Your selection should fade out as a vignette and be surrounded by transparency
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Hw can I generate XY graphs directly in a vector data format for printing ie pdf

A further question re. Printing of Graphs
There are many similar questions but none where the answers are acceptably adiquite or two or three were the link was broken,
"Developer exchange forums have been moved" and a pointer to the new
site, unfort it was hard to find or guess the rest of the link.
So here is my angle on this problem;
So far I have tried;
Using property node: "App. Printing.Default Printer" to select the printer to use, then
Using Report Functions to print controls;
New Report, to generate a new report reference
Set Report Orientation
Set Report Margins
Set Report Font
Set Report Header Text
Set Report Font
Set Report Footer Text
loop for each page
Set Report Footer Text, With page number
Append Control Image to Report, several times
New Report Page
Until the end of the last page
Print Report
Dispose Report
Initially using existing XY-Graph controls from the front panel. These
are on a page of a Tab control to hide these controls while not in use
and allow them to be hidden while generating the printout.
Unfortunately when this page is hidden any graph scales set to
autoscale don't, (normally don't need to and would otherwise be a waste
of processor time), resulting in graph plots going off scale or
becoming a line along the axis.
An issue is that what is printed appears to be read from the screen, so resolution is much
lower than required for for printing, resulting in rather pixellated
printed versions. These prints will usually be emailed, so tried the
pdf995 "printer driver" but the resulting pdf file size is rather large.
Currently trying Plot-XY on a much larger picture so as to get
adequate resolution for printing, however suspect this will result in
much larger pdf files and probably cause other problems.
The preferred solution in this case will probably be to generate print
output, instead of based on raster images (ie jpg or png), but on a
vector format, maybe via postscript or directly in pdf format.
Similar graphs currently printed from Excel via pdf995
(or OpenOffice) result in files around 20 kb per page. these can be printed at any size
(at least upto 64 times) without becoming pixellated, so assume these
are vector based.
Currently a page with 4 XY Graph controls uses around 40 to 45 kb per
page but resolution is poor and overcoming that may push file size up
to 150 to 200 kb per page, and the whole job can be 50 to 100 pages.
Are there any functions to generate XY graphs directly in a vector data format preferably in pdf or via PostScript format.
Cheers
Darryl

Hi Darryl,
I was able to reproduce the issue you were seeing, in which a report generation was taking up a large amount of space per page in a PDF utility. I found; however, using my attached VI (notice that it is set to *.png) and the CutePDF utility (free download at http://www.cutepdf.com/) I was able to get a per page size of about 10 KB. Also using the png I found that the image quality seemed to be quite high.
Please try incorporating this solution into your application and see if it reduces your file sizes.
Thanks and have a good evening!
Cheers,
Jonah
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Jonah Paul
Marketing Manager, Embedded Software
Evaluate the LabVIEW RIO Platform! - ni.com/rioeval
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print_XY Graph.vi ‏23 KB

Saving for Web, Saving for Print

I have Photoshop Elements 9 & 11. I realize that for the best resolution for prints, the dpi should be at least 220. For web, pics can be saved as little as 72 dpi. Questions: if I want to have print AND web versions of pics, is it best to save them first for Print version, and then do a "Save For Web." If I "Save For Web" before I do my "Saving for Print," will this mess up print versions? I am presently saving my images as tiffs because they are layered. Also -- I don't want to duplicate files and clutter my computer so I'd appreciate feedback on what the most efficient way of saving is for doing both Web and Print. One other thing -- should I uncheck "Resample" for print versions?
Thanks!

For printing, it is desirable to have the file resolution in the 240-300px/in range. For web work, 72 px/in is ok.
DPI is a printer setting.
Suggest that you continue saving in format which supports layers as you have been doing. This will allow you to go back at a future date and make changes. Go to File>save for web, save as JPEG or PNG-24 to a separate folder. When you are done with these files, delete them. You can always go back and recreate them as needed. And, don't forget to back up the picture files to removable disk or DVD.
In the File>save for web dialog, I ususally make the longest side 600 +/- pixels, and check "constrain proportions."

Exporting text for print

How can I export ab text with a transparent background for print at 300 PPI? Also which format? I've researched but I am still a bit confused.
Thanks in advance.

If you are sending it to a printer, pdf is more than likely the way to go. next would probably by tiff then png. These two formats are raster formats so they would print as the resolution you created the file at. Not all printer support ai but ai and pdf would be vector formats that print at the highest resolution of the printer regardless of the documents resolution.
Jpg even though it compresses to a nice small file, is a lossy format, in that data is thrown out to save space. I does not support transparency or layers.
png supports transparency but does not support layers. (Layers for these two formats are photoshop layers)
tiff and psd supports layers and transparency as well as editable text.
eps is hardly used any more but some older software requires it.
pdf supports transparency, editable text, layers (both illustrator and photoshop) as well as a host of other options like color profiles, animations, etc.
A pdf file can also embed the ai or photoshop file depending on which app created the pdf. Making it editable in that app.
In the end, you use what format(s) that the printer supports, which is why it is always a good idea to ask the printing shop.
If it is a printer in your home or office, then just print it instead of exporting it. (unless you need the file in another app like Indesign or photoshop)

Best File Type for Printing Ai Artwork

Hi all,
I have been designing in illustrator for a while, but am fairly new to designing media for print. I am uploading a poster-size graphic to a web site that only accepts .jpeg and .png. The graphic will be used on the web and will also be printed. I know .png is preferable as it is not a lossy format and works better with vector art, but .png does not support CMYK color space for printing. In a situation where I can only choose betweent the two, should I choose .jpeg over .png for better printing, despite the lossy format?
Thanks for your help!

I have to disagree. Only some digital printers prefer RGB files. Most want to get CMYK files. If you have text in clean black dreated a workflow with RGB involved will transform any clean black in clored 4c-black which has to be avoided.
That's said it will exclude also PNG files. PNG does not support CMYK and neither color management. So the printed outcome will not predictable.
And if you send an Illustrator file for print use only PDF.
AI would be fine, if the printer in not openen the file in Illustrator but only in Acrobat. If you have used fonts which are not available on the printers side or if you have linked files included into you AI file, opening an AI file will destroy that file. But if someone is using only a PDF or the PDF part of the AI file it is ok.
EPS does not support transparency nor does it support color management. So it is to avoid also.
JPG, PNG, TIFF and others are rasterizing the artwork and text by the image's resolution contrary to vector artwoork which will be rasterized on the devizes' resolution. This ends in a raggy edge of the vectors you really won't want.

What is the best high res image file format to use for print

Dear All,
I'm working on a 300 + page catalog, and I was wondering what would be the best image format to use on the catalog. I thought png was the best since it supports background transparency and all, but for some reason I'm not able to export it once I change the image to CMYK ( since I need CMYK for print ). Should I save all in eps. instead? Please help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Jack

.psd is the best... supports everything you would want for print. PDF does also, but takes a little more knowledge to use properly.
.png is recommended when using Word etc.
EPS is obsolete.

Safari won't use custom page margins for printing

I'm using Safari 4.04 on Snow Leopard. Here's the problem in a nutshell: I'd like to print pages that I can put in a three-hole-punch binder, without the holes going through printed content. In other words, I simply want to set a custom left margin for printing. Should be simple, right? Apparently, not if you use Safari.
OK, as far as I can tell, here's how it's supposed to work (and this is how it works for me in every browser except Safari):
In the "Print" dialog box, click the "Paper Size" drop-down menu (which defaults to "US Letter"), and scroll down to "Manage Custom Sizes…". Create a custom paper size with the desired margins. Now you should be able to select this custom paper size when you print.
This works fine in other browsers (of course you may need to select the custom size from the "Page Setup" menu, but in Safari 4 this is apparently integrated into the "Print" dialog). In Safari, however, the custom margins are completely ignored. A simple, but frustrating, bug …
This has been a known bug, as I've seen it mentioned in other forums, such as:
http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/117342-safari-4-0-3-printing/
But Apple has yet to fix it.
OK, for those who are wondering, there are two workarounds I know of, neither of which is totally satisfying:
1) When setting the custom paper size, define the paper itself as narrower than 8.5 inches; for example set it to 7.5. Safari doesn't ignore the actual paper size, it just ignores the margins you set. But unfortunately this will result in an increase in both left and right margins, not just the left margin.
2) As I teach Web design, this is the kludge I figured out on my own: Set a user-defined style sheet for Safari. First, create a plain text document consisting of this:
html {
margin-left: .5in;
(Of course, set the margin to your desired width. I'm using a half inch here.) Save this style sheet, calling it something like "safaristyle.css". Now, in Safari's "Advanced"preferences, set this as your custom style sheet. This works great, but unfortunately if you leave Safari on this setting this will result in an increase in the left margin when you view Web pages as well as when you print them. So you can select the custom style sheet only just before printing, and then set it back to "None Selected" when you're not printing.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that Apple still hasn't fixed this little bug?
Does anyone out there know of a better workaround? Thanks for listening.

Set them automatically based on what criteria?
If you just want to set them programatically, then as the Help indicates, use the Printing:Margins property to set those values.
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Example_VI_BD.png ‏2 KB

CS3 - Broken hyperlinks after Package Book For Print

I've posted a similar problem here a few weeks ago, but no answers, so hopefully I can get some help here with a more specific problem description...
I have created a an INDB, including several "chapter" INDD files, linked PNG images and hyperlinks to text and URL anchors throughout. Once I have everything complete, I select all the INDD files and do a "Package Book for Print", making sure the Preflight finds no problems, and then save the packaged INDB folder in a new directory on my local drive.
All works fine in the new INDB, EXCEPT that any hyperlink that points to a text anchor in a different INDD is broken.Apparently, the hyperlink is still pointing to the original INDD's absolute location rather than the new INDD text anchor within my newly packaged INDB. All Hyperlinks that point to a text anchor in the same INDD are fine.
I do not see any option to change this behavior. Strange though, that if I go to edit one of these "broken" hyperlinks, as soon as I choose the correct INDD that it should point to, then it correctly chooses the right link destination automatically in the edit dialog, so obviously it has stored the correct text anchor info, but just loses the document it should point to.
Is there any way to avoid this problem? It is a real pain to keep fixing hyperlinks every time a package my INDBs. I've heard some people use a 3rd party plugin to remedy this and other InDesign link problems (but I forget the plugin name). Suggestions??
Thanks!

Are you talking about what I said - "Seems like in the past, I saved a copy of my book, then packaged the copy for print?"
I thought that was the only way around it. I feel certain I will not make this mistake again. Luckily, most printers I work with prefer pdfs. It's just an insane bug. If it's not a bug, it's a major flaw in the program. People do package books. The option wouldn't be in there if we didn't do it sometimes.

Managing the process for print design

Hi,
I like to know if there is some kind off managing system for creating a print design. Sometimes it happens that the final designs go to the press white still something wrong. I made a check list but that doesn't work, because it's unpractical when you have a very tight deadline.
So I'm looking for something more practical, that force the project manager to let the final designs being checked by; copy, specs and content, before sending it for pressing.
Big thnx!

Wibo,
Agree 100% with what Neil and John are saying but some clients are more responsible than others. I went through this a while backwhile every care is taken a lot of our entry come directly from client supplied text or tables inserted into our databases. For this reason I wanted to make the client aware and a bit more responsible for what was finally going to be printed 5000 or so times.
We came up with that attached sign off form to guide the client in checking. It is normally a pdf form which allows for n/a to be filled in for non applicable check boxes. I also decided it was important to highlight with the client that the list is not a through list of things to check but a general roadmap of the type of things to think of.
Also as a lot of our projects are handed off to the client for printing and in these days of digital proofs often the proofs are also press ready files we included the disclaimer that the artwork is not released by us for reproduction until the client returns the signed form. Their call if they go print without returning the form but we have supplied the data for proofing not final production.
As we tackle all sorts of mapping jobs we were after something generic that covered most of our small to medium sized projects - these can range from a $300 custom map supply which may only take an hour to produce to an $10k project that spans a year or two by the time all the data is captured and various revisions actioned.
Obviously for larger contracts the sign off and revision is a more formal and specific process.
Hope the attached image helps sorry about the rough Acrobat PNG export. I think some of the attached wording even came from Neil's initial suggestions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unitseven/2867283340/sizes/o/

HPM1212nf MFP i can't scan but wireless network works fine for printing

i have the MFP set up fine for printing over a wireless network. Any idea on what more i need to do to get the machine to accept a scan command from the computer using HP Laserjet Scan?

Hi there @bc123!
Thanks for contacting the HP Forums!
I see that your having a communication issue with the HP LaserJet when it comes to scanning to the computer, and I would be happy to provide you with my assistance.
A good place to start when troubleshooting scanning is to ensure the CD was installed correctly on your computer. If the CD is unavailable then I can provide you with a link to the HP driver download: Drivers & Downloads
In the link provided you will want to:
1.enter your printers model number and click GO
2.select your printer model
3.select your operating system and click NEXT
4.Click on Driver - Product Installation Software (‏1)
5.Click DOWNLOAD next to the full feature software
To provide you with a more direct link to your software and to better assist you, would you please provide me with the following information:
1. What operating system version the computer is running (ex. Mac, Windows, etc.).
Bellow are 2 links I located from HP and Macintosh on how to locate your version of operating system.
Which Windows operating system am I running?
Finding the OS X version and build information on your Mac
2. If the computer is running Windows I will need to know what version (ex. 32-bit or 64-bit).
I have provided another link from the HP web site showing you how to check if its 32-bit or 64-bit
Is the Windows Version on My Computer 32-bit or 64-bit?
3. Laserjet model number (ex. P1102w, CP1025, etc.).
Please post back with the requested information, as well as the results of your troubleshooting.
Let me know if this was helpful!
Cbert
I work on behalf of HP.
Please click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos, Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post to say “Thanks” for helping!

Hp LaserJet P3015 printer "waiting for printer to become available" message

Hello All,
I have searched through many message boards about this issue (some steaming back to as far as 2009) and I have yet to find a solution that has worked for me.
Background of situation:
In my office we have a dozen iMacs and Networked hp LaserJet P3015 printers. Most work perfectly fine with out issue. We are currently running 10.8.4 OS. There are a few issues that seem to be unique to users or types of iMacs. 1) Three brand new iMacs (the skinny ones that come without the CD drives) where showing a message prompting for the "printer operator group". I have that setting turned off but reguardless I added the user accounts to the "printer operator group" as well as the "printer admin group". After I did that the users started to recieve the message "waiting for printer to become avaible". When this message appears it never printers (I left it for a 20 minute period to no avail). I have tried a whole host of fixes with short term success but the issue keeps reoccuring. Here is a list of fixes I have tried:
What I have tried
1) I plugged the iMac directly into the printer via USB cable to install the drivers locally
2) I added the user to the printer operator group and the printer admin group
3) I checked all settings on both the printer and computer
4) I have removed and re-added the printer several ways (from the network and directly via UBS cable)
5) I checked the Ethernet connection to the printer (all are fine) (also eliminated the need for it by directly plugging her in via USB cable)
6) I have "power" shut down the printer
7) I restarted the printer settings on the network to eliminate any lingering issues
8) Made sure the software is up to date (which according to some message boards is what the problem is)
9) I have replaced both the actual Computer and Printer (with another brand new iMac), while additionally creating a new user account to eliminate hardware and faulty user settings as the culprit, as well as plugged the printer directly into the computer and removed it from the network.
10) I prayed to the IT gods
Other Notes:
I did see a solution from a message board that said to delete all "hp_" files in system/library/extensions and then directly plug the printer into the computer to install the drivers that way (which he said worked) but the guys also said that if he ran software update then the issue would re-occur. This seems to be counter productive as I like to keep all software up to date
What I have noticed:
- The issue seems to affect the newer iMacs in my office more then the older machines despite everyone running the same OS version
Thank you all so much in adavanced for your time reading my post. The issue has been extremely frustrating for both me and the end users and I appreaciate any help that anyone can provide (even if its just pointing me in the direction of another message board)
- Chris

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