Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1096 - 15 msgs
Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1096 - 15 msgs
- Subject: Re: colorsync-users digest, Vol 3 #1096 - 15 msgs
- From: Neil Speers <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:22:40 -0700
I would bet that printer is non-PostScript. I'm not up on printing from
Windows 2000, but I'm guessing the driver has some form of soft-RIP or
PS emulation which would - for that kind of printer - help smooth out
lines.
Neil Speers
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 03:27 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
Wouldn't this have to do with the flatness setting in Illustrator and
how it
interacts with the resolution of the particular printer? Hmm...but
it's the
same printer in this case. And you are printing from Mac and PC using
the
same resolution setting in the software, I gather.
Stacy Cates
Hi All
I recently helped a friend install a laser printer on a PC running
2000 and
an Imac running 9.2. As you would expect the Mac install took seconds
and
the PC minutes. They are not networked, they simply pull the USB plug
and
swap to the machine that needs it.
When all was working we sent a test print to the printer from each
machine,
the test was the same Illustrator file on each machine made up of 1pt
vector
line art. The file from the PC printed beautifully with smooth vector
curves, the file from the Imac came out pretty good but there were
visible
steps in the curves, it was not pixels but tiny steps, the same thing
happened at 600dpi and 1200dpi.
They are not using a RIP or any third party software on either
machine, just
simply sending an Illustrator file to the printer via the printer
driver.
Can anyone offer a suggestion why this difference should exist
between a Mac
and a PC ?
Any help or comments greatly appreciated
--
David Harradine
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