Printing color separations...

[Patti Williams]

I'm going nuts. I upgraded from 2002 to 2003 in hopes that it would print
color separations for me. Now it says that my print driver doesn't have the
Postscript thing. I have an HP 4v laserjet printer. I tried to download
some kind of postscript print driver for the 4v but then I get this stupid
message that says invalid something or other. I attempted to print to a pdf
file and then print the pdf file but now I can't get 2003 to print to a pdf
file and I have Acrobat 5.0. This is driving me nuts! I downloaded the
generic color print driver that comes with Office and printed to it but I
don't understand how that works...because when I first installed it and said
for it to give me a test page it printed out hundreds (well, it seemed like
hundreds) of pages of jibberish. WHAT AM I DOING WRONG? I am not a dumb
person!

Patti Williams

 

[°°MS-Publisher°°]

Go to the Adobe website, download the Generic Postscript Printer Driver,
install, print to file, then use Acrobat Distiller to create the PDF.

 

[Mac]

I don't think the HP 4V is postscript. I think you need the 4mv.

the "m" signifies "macintosh" on these old printers which, in turn,
signifies that it is equipped with the PostScript module. the plain "v" is
non-postscript and for pc use only.

Unless you bought a special option for the printer when you got it, it's not
going to work.


AND even if you did, it would not be PostScript level 3 and would still
possibly not work Very few lasers are PS level 3, not even the brand new
HPs.

the only work around I know of is to buy the full Acrobat package. Print to
the distiller printer, then use Acrobat to print to your 4v

 

[Mike Koewler]

Mac,

Huh?

I don't think the HP 4V is postscript. I think you need the 4mv.

the "m" signifies "macintosh" on these old printers which, in turn,
signifies that it is equipped with the PostScript module. the plain "v" is
non-postscript and for pc use only.

I have a 4V and it is PS. I don't know if it was added or not, I bought
it used.

Unless you bought a special option for the printer when you got it, it's not
going to work.


AND even if you did, it would not be PostScript level 3 and would still
possibly not work Very few lasers are PS level 3, not even the brand new
HPs.

It's PS 2 and prints seps

Mike