Judy Seigel (jseigel@panix.com)
Fri, 08 Jan 1999 21:56:17 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Michael Keller wrote:
> I've stayed out of this til now cause I felt I didn't know anything about it,
> but I have to question the comment below. If you use Photoshop to create
> separations to print out on your inkjet, wouldn't Photoshop be generating four
> BLACK images, which the printer would see as black images, not CMYK or RGB?
> IOW, your printer doesn't know they're CMYK or RGB, it just sees four pages of
> black printing. Or is my head up my...er, nevermind.<g>
Michael, in my experience even the "research technician" at Adobe didn't
have a handle on the operation, so don't be intimidated. Clearly there's a
lot of blue smoke and mirrors, whatever the actual drill. And a further
point: I, for instance, am printing the files, not from Photoshop, but out
of Pagemaker, which is actually doing the separations -- from info
supplied by Photoshop, which did the CMYK conversion. Pagemaker sends its
separation data to my *laser* printer, which only does black & white (and
is always bitching and moaning about not having enough memory).
So as far as I know, the laser just takes instructions (in postscript?) &
doesn't *see* anything. On the other hand, at least one advisory says the
ink jet driver does the separation when the printer is ink jet. How
Pagemaker feels about this, s/he doesn't say.
Judy
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