Publisher 2007 Color Printing option not enabled

[Howard]

I'm trying to get the best possible printing of my picture on postcards
(marketing material). When I upgraded to 2007 the quality improved. I
notice that the "Tools", "Commercial Printing Tools" "Colot Printing" option
is not enabled. What's it for and why is it not enabled? My printing is
very slow with Mail Merge from Excel (55 seconds per page of 4 postcards),
but I will post that separately.

Thanks.

 

[Howard]

Anyone?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I'm trying to get the best possible printing of my picture on postcards
(marketing material). When I upgraded to 2007 the quality improved. I
notice that the "Tools", "Commercial Printing Tools" "Colot Printing" option
is not enabled. What's it for and why is it not enabled?

I've not a clue what it's for, but I suspect that it will only work
when you plan to send your copy to a commercial publisher. Might only
work if you also have Adobe Acrobat installed (not the reader, the
full version).

FYI... it's enabled in my Pub2007 and I have Acrobat 8 installed.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I've not a clue what it's for, but I suspect that it will only work
when you plan to send your copy to a commercial publisher. Might only
work if you also have Adobe Acrobat installed (not the reader, the
full version).

It will not work if you're mail merging (you can't merge to an offset
press). It should work most other times - it doesn't rely on you having
Acrobat or on ultimately sending the file to a commercial printer
(although that's the main reason you'd want to use it). In order to
successfully output in the colour space chosen, though, you do need to
output to a commercial printer.

I don't know why it's disabled in Howard's case, but unless he wants to
ultimately print on a commercial press, then he shouldn't need to use
the command anyway.