On 11-05-03 11:06 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
I bought a color laser printer a while back to print business cards.
The laser printer duplexes and I intend to print on 110# Ivory Card
Stock. I can fit two of the cards on one sheet.
My design is a two-sided, tri-fold card (3-1/2" x 6") with 3 small
portraits on one side and a "fine-art" landscape on the other with
room for the appropriate text along the bottom edge on both sides. It
folds up to the size of a standard business card.
I created an image template in Photoshop that I can import into my
word processor. I figured out how to import the template twice so that
the images on each side line up properly. I export the word processor
document as a PDF that I can print directly from Acrobat Reader.
I'm creating the PDF file on my laptop & transferring the PDF file to
this computer that has the color laser printer using a thumb drive.
Eventually I'll get my network transferred back here to Raleigh and
will be able to print to the color laser directly from the laptop.
In the meantime ...
What I want to know is there anything I particularly need to do to the
images themselves before saving them as a jpeg to import into my word
processor? My first test run on regular paper looks pretty dark, with
the shadows kind of blocked up.
Would profiling the printer help since I'm not printing from Photoshop?
I've not tried this so it's a best-guess: I'd say profiling the printer
would help to get the images adjusted *before* you save them for
importing into the WP. True you aren't printing directly from PS, but
you are printing images that came from PS so that much can be
pre-compensated at least.
Do you have a colorimeter that can read the images off the printed cards?
-bmw
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