Printing: An Overview; General Printing Options - Adobe PHOTOSHOP 5.0 User Manual

Chapter 15: Printing
I
n most instances, the default print settings in
Adobe Photoshop produce good results. To
ensure that your color images on-screen
match your printed color images, it's important to
make sure that your system is correctly calibrated.
Calibrating for variations in monitors, printing
inks, and output devices is described in Chapter 5,
"Reproducing Color Accurately."
Note: If you experience difficulties printing from
Photoshop, export your image to a page-layout
application, and print from that application.

Printing: an overview

The most common way to print images is to
produce a positive or negative image on paper or
film and then to transfer the image to a printing
plate to be run on a press.
To print any type of image in Photoshop, you first
select general printing options, including the
halftone screen, and then specify settings for a
particular image type. For color separations, you
can also adjust how the various plates are
generated and create traps. You then print the
image as one or several plates. When you print an
image containing spot channels on a composite
printer, the spot channels are printed as separate
pages.
Important: Photoshop always prints images at the
center of the page. To print an image at a different
location on the page, export it to a page-layout
program and reposition it there, or use the Canvas
Size command to increase the canvas size and change
the image's placement (see "Increasing the size of the
work canvas" on page 59).
By default, Adobe Photoshop prints a composite
of all visible layers and channels. To print an
individual layer or channel, make it the only visible
layer or channel before choosing the Print
command. (See Chapter 10, Using Channels and
Masks, and Chapter 11, Using Layers.)

General printing options

Choose File > Page Setup to display general
printing options. The exact appearance of this
dialog box varies with different printers, printer
drivers, and operating systems. The main area of
the dialog box contains the standard printing
options for paper type, printer effects, reduction
and enlargement, and orientation. See your
printer documentation for more information on
these options.
See the information on previewing the printed
page in "Changing image size and resolution" on
page 46.
Note: Labels, crop marks, calibration bars, and
registration marks will only print if the paper size is
larger than the printed image dimensions.
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