Print Negative

I have a pdf file of a logo. I need to print a negative. Under Print Menu the mode is composite, and image is positive. It will not allow me to change these settings. I tried to invert colors but it will not allow me to either. It allows me to print a negative when I open the file in photoshop, but how can I do this in Illustrator. Please advise. Thanks

I believe that’s something that your printer driver needs to support. PostScript printers will let you print a negative. Perhaps you can print to a PostScript file, then turn on the negative option, then distill that file in Acrobat Distiller and print that.

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