Print with Preview: Screen option

Might be a bit obscure but this is a question about the screen option in print with preview.
For the purposes of photoetching (transferring a half tone positive image onto a metal plate through the use of photosensitve film for the purposes of fine art printmaking) I am trying to print a black and white photographic image using my epson printer. I have been told that by adjusting the screen option in print preview it can convert my black and white photograph into a version that has finely spaced white dots in the black / grey areas. I have tried completely different ways of doing this (eg. the mezzotint effect) but this doesn't have the desired effect. The fine dots are needed so that one it is transferred to a metal plate and etched the ink will hold in these tiny dots (or the spaces between them).
Anyone have an idea how the screen option works? I have been told it may be totally dependent on the type of printer I have. The following link explains the process and mentions they use an inkjet printer.
http://artmondo.net/printworks/articles/photshop.htm
Even if you can't help me please can anyone explain what the screen option does as I have experimented with it and it does seem to add fine dots of sorts to the image, although very fine dots which I may be confusing with the grain of the paper.
http://artmondo.net/printworks/articles/photshop.htm

When Print screen comes up, I click on print, but the option for selection is not bold. I cannot access it to print a selection that I have highlighted.What am I doing wrong? The only options available to me are "all" and "pages". In order to print I must send an e-mail to another server and then print the selection from there. This a very convoluted way of printing. There must be something easier in Firefox.

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Hey guys!
I have a huge problem. I run a small screenprinting company
We just upgraded from CS to CS5.
We use photoshop to via channels seperate CMYK pictures for imprint on clothes etc.
In the old "print with preview" dialog box there was a choice where you could change the screen angles and lpi to get different raster when you make film positives. This choice is not available any more but is a very important feature that I need badly to be able to use photoshop.
Is there another way to do this?
Please respond quickly
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So here's the printing engineer.
The reason "Screen" was removed was that it was using PostScript Level I screen commands which did not work correctly on many Level 2 and Level 3 printers. And on most RIPs / PostScript printers, there is a way to set the default screen angles and frequencies. We didn't have the time to fix the problem correctly, so after some discussion, we decided to remove it and add it to our feature list for the future, making sure to do it in a way that's compatible with newer printers, while maintaining compatibility with the old, too.
The good news is that it's not entirely removed. If the screen settings were working for you in an early version of Photoshop, and you save a document with those screen settings from that earlier version, you can print that document from Photoshop CS5 (to a PostScript printer) and the settings that are saved in the document will be used. If you change anything in the "Output" portion of the Photoshop print dialog, they'll likely be clobbered, but if you don't, they seem to work correctly (it's hard for me to say with 100% certainty, as I don't have a printer available which actually uses the old screen commands, so I'm stuck reading the PostScript, but the commands are in there with an old document that I saved from CS3, and it appears there were no changes to the output settings between CS and CS3).
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I know it's not a perfect solution, and it's pretty clunky. Sorry about that. I'm hoping to get time to add back the screen functionality in a way that will work with today's printers.

Print with preview different than image using ICC's

Hello;
I am using CS2. Suddenly when I print with preview and choose "any" icc profile, I see an off color image. This off color image is printed off color and not what I originally had. It is approximately 1/2 to one stop density lighter (and redder) and the shadows are cyan/blue, instead of neutral black.
If I choose Adobe RGB as the profile and print, the image is close but not correct. This is happening with CS2 and elements 6.
Of course the r1800 is set for ICM and off - no color adjustment.
I have down loaded new profiles, reinstalled my epson r1800, checked for missing files in CS2.
I am running windows XP Home, 2gig memory, dell xps. I have been using this system for over two years without a problem until now.
Does any one know where I can check for the problem and how to correct for it?
Thanks

On Sat, 10 May 2008 09:44:44 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
Ok, it's not ink, so I'll take another shot at this one.
> I am using CS2. Suddenly when I print with preview and choose "any" icc
> profile, I see an off color image. This off color image is printed off
> color and not what I originally had. It is approximately 1/2 to one stop
> density lighter (and redder) and the shadows are cyan/blue, instead of
> neutral black.
I can't determine whether you mean the print preview dialog's image, or the
preview that is optionally displayed by the Epson driver. The preview
shown by the Epson driver (as opposed to the one shown in the CS2 print
preview dialog) is misleading. The reason is that the RGB values for the
printer are being displayed directly on your monitor. Epsons tend to print
a bit on the cool side, so it's normal for the image to have an overall
reddish look to it.
You say two other things that seem ambiguous to me. One is that if you
choose "any" icc profile, the colors change. Does this include your
monitor profile, and other profiles such as sRGB and Adobe RGB? If they
all appear the same, then I would suspect that something is highly out of
kilter here - for example that you have ICC enabled in your printer driver
settings and are double profiling. The second thing is that the final
printed output matches the off color preview image. I have no explanation
for this, other than random coincidence.
It's hard to be definitve, about either of the above points, because I'm
not sure which preview image you are referring to.
> If I choose Adobe RGB as the profile and print, the image is close but
> not correct. This is happening with CS2 and elements 6.
Printing to Adobe RGB should produce very subdued colors, yet you are
seeing close to normal colors. Again, a puzzle that would cause me to
check your printer driver settings. It is very easy to double profile, and
with Epson's this almost always produces a magenta image.
> Of course the r1800 is set for ICM and off - no color adjustment.
For Windows, I'm used to the Epson drivers providing you with about four
choices, which include a "no color adjustment" choice, manual,
PhotoEnhance, and an "ICM" choice. On the Mac, I believe you can select
ICM from a pulldown, then disable color adjustment with a separate check
box which disables the pulldown. If you could explain this descrepancy
that might be helpful.
> I have down loaded new profiles, reinstalled my epson r1800, checked for
> missing files in CS2.
Next step is to reset your prefs - hold down shift, ctrl, alt during
startup and say yes when it asks for your first born child.
> I am running windows XP Home, 2gig memory, dell xps. I have been using
> this system for over two years without a problem until now.
>
> Does any one know where I can check for the problem and how to correct
> for it? Thanks
Read Ian Lyons's web page on how to set up your color prefs
http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps9_colour/ps9_1.htm
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http://curvemeister.com/downloads/profileplotter/dercurvemeisterprofileplotter.zip
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Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com

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Hi Linc...
Here is a copy of your prior post to me on a different forum...
Still no resolution...
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Re: Anyone having problems with Preview since upgrading to Lion OS X? When using a pdf form that allows multiline text, I am finding that the printing is completely illegible. The lines are stacking on top of each other.
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This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
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Enable guest logins and log in as Guest. For instructions, launch the System Preferences application, selectHelp from the menu bar, and enter “Set up a guest account” (without the quotes) in the search box.
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Re: Anyone having problems with Preview since upgrading to Lion OS X? When using a pdf form that allows multiline text, I am finding that the printing is completely illegible. The lines are stacking on top of each other.
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Did all of that yesterday, with the Apple Representative on the phone, and nope, still a problem...it was kind of exciting, really, they kept going up and up the tiers of support until I got disconnected...Fortunately I had the email address of the gentleman who was helping me so that I could email him back and let him know that we got disconnected...as you might imagine, he still has not emailed me back. They were able to receive a copy of the form that I use for charting and try it in their facility on their computers, so we know:
1- it is not just my computer.
2- it occurred only after installing Lion OS X, not sure if they have tried it on Snow Leopard, but that's what I would have done if I was them...assuming that somewhere in Apple someone has not upgraded to Lion.
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I think the problem is with the newer iteration of Preview not communicating well with the Adobe .pdf. probably some line of coding that needs to be written and insertedinto their program for multiline text.
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