[WinMac] Re: Mac vs NT printing


Alex Dearden(pata[at]tampabay.rr.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:17:23 -0500


>I've noticed a slightly different problem when printing to an HP Inkjet via
>an NT print queue that the same image printed from the Mac has better color
>saturation then the one from the WinNT. Printer settings are _exactly_ the
>same and the PPD file is from HP on both of them

What applications are you orinting from? On the PC side, printing from
Photoshop, you have to include a line in the ini file in order to invoke
the CRDs (Color Rendering Dictionaries) on a postscript level 2 device.
If it is not a level 2 device (I forget if the HP inkjets are postscript
or not) then check your color settings on the Mac and see if maybe
Colorsync is being invoked thereby acounting for the difference in color.

If printing from a page layout application (anything other than Photoshop
really) make sure you save the file as an EPS (especially if it is an RGB
file), this format (RGB.EPS) is the only one that will invoke the CRDs
from any application other than Photoshop.

Just to clarify, the CRDs need only be invoked when you're sending down
RGB data, not CMYK.

Alex Dearden
pata@doglover.com

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