Postscript Printer for CS5

Need to find a postscript printer (Inkjet or Laser) to output any or all CS5 documents on Mac OSX 10.5.8
My budget is $300.00
Would anyone care to give me suggestions? Thanx!

$300.00 will not buy a Postcript Printer. Most RIP's cost around $499. street. Epson Stylist Pro 3800 with a Colorburst RIP will cost around $1495.00 street., and should have an update compatable with CS5 ( if necessary ).

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How to set up postscript Printer for printing graphics

We have a requirement to print Structured graphics. I found out that we need to set up a postscript printer for it. After debugging I found out that the Device Type name should be either GRAPHICS or POSTGR or ZGRAP.
How can we set up such a printer?
Thanks in adv.

Hi,
The Device Type names that you have provided are not listed in the SAP Central Note for Printers/device Types
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/8928
However, you can again re-check this note with your printer model and check what suitable device types should be used. As you will find inthis note:
"Device type definitions are stored completely in tables and can be individually adapted, modified or enhanced. If SAP performs such an adjustment for a customer, it constitutes a consulting service, and is generally charged seperately"
SAP has now released the SAP Printer Vendor Program - https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1130927, printer manufacturers can develop and release device types for their printers.
https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1100779 contains a list of all participants
Information about the support for new printer models is contained in the "Printer Vendor Wizard Note" of the relevant manufacturer. A complete list of all "Printer Vendor Wizard Notes" is available in Note 1097990. If your printer model is not listed in one of these "Printer Vendor Wizard Notes", proceed as described in Note 1103826.
- Regards, Dibya

PageMaker 6.5 set default PostScript printer for PDF export

My boss uses PageMaker 6.5 and it appears when she uses the Export to PDF option it is selecting a PostScript printer at random and asking it to "print to file" to create the PostScript file that it later gives to Distiller to create the PDF. The problem is, she has a "virtual PDF print driver" installed that is not unlike the Adobe PDF printer driver, except it either doesn't support "print to file" or maybe just doesn't like something about the way PageMaker is using it. It works great from other apps, but not PageMaker. Anyway, is there a way to force PageMaker to use a specific PS printer for this, instead of picking the first one it finds? I thought it might be alphabetical order based on driver or printer name, or port name, but I've tried changing all of those, and no luck. I did install a new PS printer, and that worked for a bit (so I assumed it was using the most recent printer installed), but now it is selecting the virtual one again, and not working... not sure why.
If she sets the default printer to Adobe PDF Printer (she has Acrobat 9), it uses that one, and everything works fine. She doesn't want to use that for her default printer though, and the printer she wants as her default isn't a PostScript printer, so PM doesn't try to use it.
Maybe a registry setting or something? Or someone that can confirm the order that PageMaker looks for a printer to use, so that I can maybe trick it in to using a specific one?

If it wasn't my boss, I'd just tell her to do that. She's been using PM for many many years, and hard to retrain yourself. Of course, this might be the best option. Seems like a weird design to "pick a printer at random" though, so hoping someone knows of some hidden option to force a specific printer.

POSTSCRIPT PRINTER FOR WIN7 PRO 32

Which HP printers with PostScript emulation are supported fofr Windows 7 (pro 32-bit)?. It seems the Color Laser Jet 3800, which did fine in both PCL and PS on my XP, are not- except with Universal PS dirver, which is so slow that timeouts occur.

Hello smithurmann. I understand you are trying to locate printers that work with Postscript Emulation. I have located an HP document that contains information on this printer: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=0&spf_p.tps...
This first document is simply an overview of the subject. It lists a few printers that support the action. The document explains it better than I could. Here is another document for you to review: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=411171&spf_...
The main point of this second document is that the postscript printing language is not supported on printers that perform host-based printing. It also provides a list of printers that this rule applies to. Finally, I have one more document for you to review: http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/template.PAGE/public/kb/docDisplay/?sp4ts.oid=411171&spf_...
This document contains nothing about postscript printing, rather it explains host-based printing and its implications, in comparison to postscript printing. Again, the documentation can better explain all of the information.
If you have any other questions please let me know.
Mario
I worked on behalf of HP.

(Mac) Postscript printing issue - Photoshop CS5.1

We're having an issue printing certain files to any of our office printers via Photoshop. Most of our office computers are Macs running OS X 10.6.8 or 10.7.4, and all are running CS5.5 Design Std.
What we're noticing is that, on particular .tiff, .jpeg, and .psd files, when we issue a print command within Photoshop, the job sends to the printer successfully, but then each printer reports a Postscript error. It reads "PS limitcheck error, offending command: 'yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy'", more or less.
Our initial thought was that there was something wrong with the particular file: a damaged font, too many path entries, etc. But, our immediate workaround was to try printing the same file in Illustrator, which we were able to do successfully right off the bat. We were also able to print the file via Preview and by exporting it to a PDF and printing via Acrobat.
We've reproduced the problem on all of our printers, and even on a few of the printers after installing different (older) driver versions on the test workstation. This leads us to believe that the issue lies somewhere in Photoshop 5.1's coding.
I read in a previous post (from 2009) that including labels in the print (chosen from the print dialogue) can cause this type of error, but we are not using print labels here, so that can't be the issue in our case.
Any thoughts on this? Or are we stuck with the mentioned workaround and/or giving Adobe more money for CS 6? (and exactly how many updates did we get for CS5??)

Well I suppose I could post it there, but I wouldn't be hoping for any sort of response: there's not exactly much to read into. We've found that it's typically better to try and find a workaround for CS errors (in this case, copy/paste the contents of the open file into a new ai file, re-save with new filename) than to try to guess at the cause from these kinds of error messages, which are nearly useless.
That said, this one is a nagging annoyance for our designers, and given that we get the same behavior across multiple systems/OSs/printers, and that the error only occurs when printing from photoshop cs 5.1 (not when printing from illustrator, or Preview), the root cause MUST have something to do with photoshop. Perhaps there is just something about the particular files and their interaction with photoshop, but whatever the real reason, photoshop is playing a part.
And so, here we are. Perhaps there are other troubleshooting measures I've missed? Maybe there's some limitation with printing in Photoshop I'm not aware of? Maybe there's a setting somewhere in the print dialogue that we should enable/disable for further troubleshooting? I'm basically looking for other shot-in-the-dark types of things to try at this point; I harbor no illusions that there's anyone out there who knows what's happening or has seen this before.
With that in mind, fire away! I'm willing to try nearly anything.

Where can I download adobe postscript driver for autocad 2006 so I can print in .pdf?

Where can I download adobe postscript driver for autocad 2006 so I can print in .pdf?

Hi,
Adobe Postscript printer driver can be installed from Windows 7 for example as blow:
1. Select Start >Devices and Printers > Add Printers
2. Select "Add a local printer" and click "Next" button
3. Select "Use an existing local port: LPT 1(Printer port)" and click "Next" button
4. Select Xerox from Manufature section then select Xerox Phaser xxxxx PS printer
Hisami

No black&white or grayscale option for postscript printer

At work we have a Sharp laser copier printer that is capable of printing in color. They tell us, however, to avoid printing in color because it costs more.
Normally, in the print dialog, there's an advanced option where you can select to print in color or grayscale. For this printer, for some reason, when we provide the address, and MacOS queries the printer type, it just appears as "Generic PostScript printer," and as a result, there is no such advanced option.
Is there another "generic" postscript driver we can select that will include this option?
Incidentally, I can't figure out how to change what driver is being used for this printer. Any hints?
Thanks.

theosib wrote:
For this printer, for some reason, when we provide the address, and MacOS queries the printer type, it just appears as "Generic PostScript printer," and as a result, there is no such advanced option.
The Generic PS driver included with OS X will only print in colour to a colour device. As you have found, there is no setting to change it to Grayscale/B&W.
theosib wrote:
Is there another "generic" postscript driver we can select that will include this option?
If the Sharp supports the PCL printer language, there is a Generic PCL Laser driver also included with OS X that will only print in B&W.
If the Sharp does not support the PCL printer language then check the Sharp web site for a "PPD" for your model. This should give you the option to print in B&W.
theosib wrote:
Incidentally, I can't figure out how to change what driver is being used for this printer. Any hints?
If the printer is already created then you can use the CUPS web admin page to change the settings for the printer. But it is often just easier to delete the printer from Printers & Scanners and create a new one. Note that when creating the printer, you can click on the Use menu and this will give you options to select an alternate driver.

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and illustrator cs3,have tried so many things but still belive it must be something so simple either the wrong PPD or a setting in cs3.I can offer further information if anyone can help.

Locate the PPD-file by a windows search for *.PPD.
Open by WordPad and and check by reading the header whether
it's the correct one.
A PPD can have several names (file name, internal name,
nickname, for instance, but all are in plain ASCII).
When the PPD is identified, then print the relevant parts
about screens (Lpi,dpi) on paper.
Use in the settings only Lpi/dpi combinations which are
mentioned in the PPD.
I'm not sure whether other combinations are simply ignored
or replaced by the nearest parameters in the PPD.
This may depend on the printer.
I had tested 1200dpi toner printers by 90/100/120Lpi.
The results were different, accurate measurement was not
possible.
90Lpi delivers less geometric resolution, but more levels.
Good for smooth gradients, as in portraits.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann

Postscript printer problems

I can't print from InDesign CS5 to my postscript printer, Xerox workcenter 7345. The printer shows the error 116-703, which is a postscript error. I have the correct print driver installed and can see all the functions of my printer and I use a Mac. Is this a problem with the printer software or with InDesign? I can print to the printer from acrobat or preview with PDF but not directly from InDesign. Any help?

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Once I did this the correct fonts started printing. Bad thing is all the ADVANCED printing items from FreeHand's print dialog were no longer available.
Not sure where this print driver came from. I assume it was installed with Leopard. For the most part I am not finding Leopard ready for prime time. If anyone reading this hasn't upgraded yet, don't. Wait for 10.5.2 to come out first. Hopefully some things will get fixed then.

Printing with SMC4007ABR Print Server to PostScript Printer

I've just set up my Mac Mini in a new network configuration, with an old SMC4007ABR router/print server printing to my Ricoh Laser AP2100 printer, using IPP printing and the configuration for a Generic PostScript printer, which had worked for this printer in previous setups. I am using the IP address of the router, 192.168.2.1, and the queue name specified in the documentation "lpt1". When I log into the router to view the status page it says the printer is idle and ready. When I submit a print job, I get the message "Network host '192.168.2.1' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds...".
I have tried deleting the printer queue and recreating it, using the queue name with upper case, using the queue name specified for use with Windoze ("LP"), changing the router configuration from DHCP to manual IP assignments and back again, resetting the print system from the Printer Setup Utility, using the CUPS interface at http://localhost:631/ to modify the printer setup in any sane way I could think of. I have looked at anything I could find in this forum that seemed relevant, but haven't found anything to try which I haven't tried. I have tried the SMC technical support system, but the router is no longer supported by them, but by another firm which charges per incident, and doesn't support Macintosh.
I would appreciate any suggestions from people who know idiosyncracies of this router, or who have fruitful insights into this strange behavior. Clearly my Mini sees the printer queue, but not well enough to be able to transmit data to it. Thanks for any insights you can offer.
Regards,
Geoff
Mac Mini Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks very much for your response. It seems I was ignoring the answer in some of the posts I was looking at, having misjudged that they were applying to a different sort of situation. I can't even remember what set of instructions from years ago established such a strong prejudice that I needed the IPP protocol. In any case, I'm grateful for your help.
Best regards,
Geoff
Mac Mini Intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Trying to set up my Printer for IP.

Hi, ive been trying to set up my iMac to work with my printer that has a IP set up already.
The printer is a HP OfficeJet 6110.The printer is currently set up to work with my two windows based machines. One being a desktop and wired, second being a laptop over IP. Both print to the machine perfect.
Now when I try setting up my printer on my mac I open up my Print and Fax window, then go to my Printer Browser. Right away it finds "P1", which is the name of the IP printer. It then sets it up through Apple Talk, its location being Local Zone. Then it goes to the option of "Print Using". First as Auto Select it sits and tries to find the printer. I once left it running for an hour with nothing. The i go to HP, and my printer is not listed.
Last I set it up as Generic PostScript printer, it works and I extit. I try to print something and the printer begins to run. But when it begins to print it is all symbols and random words.
If anyone could help me I'd be very happy.
Thank You.

Why is it set up as an AppleTalk printer? I thought you said it was an IP printer.
You need to open Printer Setup Utility and click on the Add button. Select the IP Printer icon in the toolbar. Select Line Printer Daemon - LPD from the Protocol drop down menu. Enter the printer's IP address in the Address field. Enter a short name for the Queue field (e.g., Officejet_6110.)
From the Print Using drop down menu select HP, thenlocate and select the printer driver from the list. Click on the Add button.
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Postscript Printer and PDF

hi,
We have a kyocera printer and want to use ADS. The ADS works fine. FP_TEST_00 shows no error.
It seems to be alright when i preview the PDF. But the printout shows only code.
It´s like this:
%!PS-Adobe
save
% simple drawing functions
/edge {/y2 exch def /x2 exch def /y1 exch def /x1 exch def .......
...........etc.
I found this entry at the SAP library
https://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/bb/db03b04a3011d189490000e8323c4f/frameset.htm
So i tried to configure the printer as a postscript device as follows:
- I changed the Print Type in XDC to postscript (ps_plain).
- In SPAD i changed the printer driver at the devicetypes to "PostScript printer driver".
- I activated "Postscript-Formatting" for G_RAW (which is used by the device type).
But nothing was changed on the printout. It just prints out raw Postscript code (or something like that).
Has anyone an idea what to change to get a working printout? there is no error Message or Dump. SP01 says everything is alright. ADS is also working fine.
T. Nagel
Edited by: Tobias Nagel on Feb 13, 2009 10:53 AM

Hi Nagel,
I am facing the same issue printing PDF from Spool. I was asked to use PostScript printer. we have the device type set as postscript but I dont think it is printing. its prining only postscript charaters..
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Banding occurs when printing from Illustratror/InDesign on HP Designjet Z5200 PostScript Printer

Recently we got the below printer for large-format prints such as posters, banners and the like.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-18972-3328061-12600-3328080-4122732.ht ml
However so far when printing directly from InDesign and Illustrator there have been problems with "banding" (alternating stripes of darker and brighter colors on the paper when printing).
It seems that this could have something to do with either the type of paper and/or the OS (we use both XP and Win7) on which CS5 runs but I am still unsure if these are the real causes.
After having talked to a certified HP-technician (not only a support employee!) the technician pointed towards the CS5 package as the culprit.
At the very moment we are using a workaround that the before mentioned technician advised us to use which is basically the following.
Illustrator --> Saving the Ilustrator file, then opening it in Photoshop and saving as a tiff raster image in the relevant resolution, then importing the tiff raster image into HP's HP own "Instant Printing Pro" printing application.
InDesign --> Saving the InDesign file as a pdf, then opening the pdf in Photoshop and saving as a tiff raster image in the relevant resolution, then importing the tiff raster image into HP's HP own "Instant Printing Pro" printing application.
These two solutions both work without banding on the final print.
However, sometimes - as mentioned before - it seems that the paper might absorb the ink better if it's of a better/thicker quality when banding doesn't seem to occur (at the moment we mostly use plain paper settings in the local printer settings display when loading a roll of paper which also is a cheaper type of paper) and while banding seems to occur mostly when printing from XP machines it doesn't always seem to occur when doing so from Win7 machines.
What's the score on the above?
Any help and input is welcome and appreciated!

Well, I have no official
connection to Adobe, but any manufacturer who sells a product targeted
at the graphic arts industry, and then says that the reason it doesn't
work is because there's a problem with the software produced by the
graphics industry leader needs a reality check. Printer manuafacturers
have had access to Adobe for years, so there's really no excuse for an
incompatibility problem.
Your company is a vendor? Get
escalated. HP should be all over getting this to work correctly,
including providing a RIP for you if that's what it's going to take to
implement proper printing. How do the expect you to demonstrate or
recommend this printer if it stripes the background?
Peter -->
You are right about basically anything that you said and I agree that this should be HP's headache. But it's not so simple at the moment.
First of all I'd hate to stand back like a dummy if it would turn out to be a minor driver setting issue or another insignificant problem that creates the banding. On the other hand it would of course also be the local HP-support failing since they didn't manage to tell us about it in the first place and that's really their job and responsibility but under any circumstance, I'd like to give the ideas and suggestions from the other participants further up this thread a chance and see if the pdf-printing or other ideas work. In other words..., if I'd complain to HP it had to be bulletproof.
Secondly we are supposed to sell these and similar products to our clients and if I should start a dicussion I'd have to argue not only with HP who would most likely claim that the workaround they told us works (in a way) and that this was a result - at least to them - as well. I might also have to start discussing with the CEO of our company, the purchasing department and the marketing director (the latter actually said some time ago when we had the first problems that if the printer didn't work according to the HP-consultant's promises they could have it back, so there is at least some hope there). At the moment I am too busy at work and too low paid to be getting into this. And I seriously doubt that HP would give us a RIP to be testing this off even though we'd argue that the clients won't be able to work this out if we don't do. They'd probably just say that it's mainly for plotting charts and architects or stuff or find a whole range of other excuses. It's not certain and there could be positive surprises but I'd say that that's not likely.
There is one other thing Peter that I am still wondering about...
If you take a look again at the fourth and last picture-link I posted you can see the exact same print as in link no. 3 but whereas the third link shows banding the last - the fourth image link - shows no banding at all. Now I am not a 100% sure anymore if these were both printed directly from Illustrator but to my best knowledge they were since I printed all of these banners the same day and I don't recall saving to tiff or using other programs. I might be wrong but if that's the case then the thick HP-paper doesn't band whereas the thin does. That's the reason why I stated previously that the banding might occur with thinner paper (or wrong paper load settings) and doesn't occur with thicker paper at all. As mentioned I don't recall this action a 100% but am pretty sure. Also therefore I would like to run another test when I get more time and won't be so busy at work as I am right now.
Do you think there could be a difference there...?
macinbytes wrote:
I'm guessing they have the same crappy Colorburst software that shipped with the HP we got and it's never going to get good with InDesign or Illustrator transparency. We have the thermal printer that is 6x more expensive and the software is still bad. At version 9.3 it still fails on InDesign transparency.
We just make tiffs or normalized PDFs for files containing InDesign transparency. Illustrator transparency generally works better than InDesign, but isn't infallible. Anything that uses the gradient feather tool in InDesign I don't even bother with a test print to see if it gets it because I know it will fail 100% of the time.
If they are a vendor they are in a Catch 22 if they do it right and go for a solution that normalizes the files properly before sending to the garbage software that ships with it. When you are talking about an entry level thermal inkjet the software package isn't going to be robust. Something like a GMG or other solution to handle all the show devices files works, but at best you are disingenuous about how files are being handled with your clients and face pushback when they can't run all the cool tricks to them when they get it out in the field.
Happens with Colorburst, happens with Colorgate, happens to a lesser degree even with the lower end Creo RIP. Fiery seems to get it good somehow, but doesn't power a ton of inkjets.
HP support is phonetag hell anyway for inkjets. They buy out tons of companies that produce anything printing like ColorSpan and provide bare minimum support on the products they slap an HP tag on. They want to sell inks and papers. They don't make the software and license it in bulk like the crap they load on their computers. They also usually ship with old software that needs at least a couple point releases before it is current, but even the current software on their thermal printers sucks at InDesign transparency. HP may need a reality check on their software, but I doubt they get it. They've got a sufficient stranglehold and supporting what is essentially a bottom of the barrel portion of their printing business is in the high maintenance low yield square for them.
macinbytes -->
Wow, now THAT is scary reading...!
If what you wrote is true then things really start looking bleak. But I can recognize some of the problems that you are mentioning although I am not into all of the details that you are writing about in your thread. But it sure looks like they just mass produce and try to keep support to a bare minimum whereas they are scoring big bucks on the media, inks and other accessories and then hope that complaints will die and people will just give up in the end.
It does make sense also seen in light of the fact that our local HP-consultant who "introduced" us to the printer praised it to the sky with a lot of "sales mambo jambo", trying it out in HP's own "E-share & Print" (which I was told by the HP-technician was the wrong HP-print program, instead he made me download and install the "Instant Printing Pro") whereas he NEVER even tried it off in any of the Adobe programs or asked some of our employees to do so.
If you are getting more info in regards to the development in these cases or solutions software-like speaking I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks for your time and for posting.

PDF files scanned at B & W print to an HP 2055dn Postscript printer as white on black

PDF files scanned at B & W print to an HP 2055dn Postscript printer as white on black. Non postscript printers print the same file correctly. This is the case with three different scanners. Scanning the same sheets into greyscale prints fine with all printers.
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I really prefer to scan in B & W, as I have to scan several hundred pages and the resulting file is both smaller and higher quality than the grayscale files, but I can't print them at home; I have to use the printer at work and that really isn't appropriate.

Hi,
Can you try some experiments please - or tell us if you have tried them.
1) Load a new image (one that hasn't been saved before) into the editor and without saving it, try printing from the editor. It is important that PSE hasn't saved it.
2) Load any image into the editor and do a Save for Web (you may have to reduce the size) in JPG format and see if you can print that JPG either from PSE or another program.
Please let us know the results.
Brian

Crystal Reports 8.5 and Barcode field on Postscript printer

Hi, I have a Crystal 8.5 document with a barcode Code128 inside (Azale font). If I print the document on a PLC printer using Azalea Truetype font the Barcode are printed. If I print the document on a PostScript printer the barcode are not printed. If I change font with PostScript version and I print on a PostScript printer the barcode are not printed to.
If I print the same document with Crystal 2008 the barcode are printed in both case.
There are some problems in Crystal 8.5 for Postscript print ?
thanks Filippo

Could be, all I can suggest is you go to the download page and install all patches available for CR 8.5. Click on the Businessobjects tab above and the Crystal Reports and then the link to get downloads.
IF that doesn't resolve the issue you may want to get the latest print drivers for your printer. If that still doesn't fix the problem then you have no option but to upgrade and try again. Cr 8.5 is 10 years old, no new updates available now.
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Don

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