Problem printing from QuarkXpress 4

[BobK]

Hi,

I'm just learning Quark and I have a problem with the Print options setup screen. Most of the fields are greyed out including the option to print at reduced size and the option to print tiff's at full resolution.

Also I can set up new Print Styles and save them but the field for selecting them is also greyed out on the Print options screen.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in anticipation!

Bob.

[D-Frag]

Hi Bob,

Welcome to the GDF, im not a quark expert at all, but since there is no one around to answer you here you go. Go to file, and find a 'export' or some other way to save as a multipage .pdf. Once you have succesfully saved all of your pages into a pdf file, you can then open it in acrobat, and choose the 'Scale to fit media' option. I hope that helps you out......


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[Kool]

Hi BobK, welcome to the forum. I'm 99% sure it's a post script problem. Quark lives and breathes post script. You need a ps printer and all kinds of ps drivers to get any kind of a decent print out from Quark. You can try D-Frag's work around, it should work.

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[PrintDriver]

Can you make a pdf from Q4 without Distiller and an Xtension?

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R.H.

[LTG]

You have to have distiller unless you go about it the very long way by making an eps of your quark document and then opening it in Illustrator or Photoshop and then making a PDF.

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[D-Zine]

Did you make sure you have the correct PPD selected for the printer you are using? If you don't it won't give you any options in the print menu, or minimal options and will gray them all out like you said. You can do the work around like D-Frag suggested to get out what you need done but then I would check out the other stuff like Kool suggested - I agree it has to be a PS problem.

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[BobK]

Thanks for all your replies guys!

I did suspect that Q4 knew that my printer wasn't a PostScript printer and that's why the options were restricted. I don't know whether I can get a different PPD for it that might fool Q4 into thinking it is a PS printer.

I tried saving as a pdf from Q4 but it does look like I would need a distiller (which I can't afford to buy right now).

I have managed to produce a print by saving as an EPS file in Q4 and then printing it from Photoshop, but that seems to mess with the colours by reducing the saturation. I think this is my best bet if I could work out why the colour change is happening.

Thanks again for your help.

Bob.

[PrintDriver]

Depending on the printer, you may be able to get a rip program for it... but that goes in the same category as buying Acrobat...

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R.H.

[LIMEMAN]

you will need a PPD to print to true pdf format. saving your files in other ways (Pshop) doess not create the same type of pdf. save as pdf rasterizes the file. I can provide you with a PPD. are you in QX4 running on OS 9.2?

[BobK]

Thanks for the offer Limeman, but I'm running QX4 on Win XP so I guess your PPD won't work? I think PrintDriver's right about the RIP program - I think Epson do one for their printers but I don't have the cash at the moment.

Bob.

[thelobst]

You can distill the eps rather than taking it into photoshop. Just drag your eps file into distiller with the correct settings