Advanced Printing Procedures [Macintosh]

If your program is not listed, refer to a section on a similar program.

Illustrator 8.0 [Macintosh]

ColorSync 2.x or higher and Kodak Digital Science must be installed when using Illustrator to create CMYK files.

1.From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor click Printer>Setup Properties. Then click the Print Tab.

2.Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it, and that correct output profile and rendering intent are set.

3.Click OK to close the Setup Properties dialog box.

4.Go to Apple menu and select Chooser. Highlight Adobe PS and make sure ColorCAMM PC-12 RIP@...

is selected.

5.In Illustrator, go to File>Document Setup.

6.Select Options ‘Use printers default screen’, and then check box for Use Page Setup and click the Page Setup button.

7.Choose a standard paper size in the Paper field.

8.Select Custom Page Default from the pop-up menu if a custom page size is required, and enter your custom page size. Click the Add button.

9.Select Page Attribute from the pop-up menu. Select the defined Custom Page in the ‘Paper’ field.

10.Click OK to AdobePS Page Setting dialog. Click OK to Document Setup dialog.

11.Go to File>Color Setting and check ‘Simulate print colors on display’ if you want your monitor to soft- proof CMYK output.

12.Go to File>Print. Select your printer in the ‘Printer’ field and select the page you want to print, and the number of copies.

13.Select Adobe Illustrator 8 from the pop-up menu.

•Set Output to Composite.

•Set PostScript to Level 3.

•Set Data to Binary.

•Check Force Fonts to Download.

14.Select Printer Specific Options from pop-up menu. If you want the file to be printed automatically select Print in the After Spooling option. If you want to verify the print mode and profile settings before printing the file, select Hold. Select Hold in the After Output option, if you want to keep the file in the Print Monitor.

15.Click Print to start printing.

Illustrator 9.0 [Macintosh]

ColorSync 2.x or higher and Kodak Digital Science must be installed when using Illustrator to create CMYK files.

1.From the Roland ColorChoice Print Monitor click Printer>Setup Properties. Then click the Print Tab.

2.Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it. Also, if you're using the transparency feature of Illustrator 9.0 or the like (described later in this document), we recommend setting "Bitmap rendering intent" and "Vector rendering intent" to the same value. Color stitching may occur if the settings are different. (For more information about color stitching, refer to "The Transparency Feature in Illustrator 9.0" later in this document.)

3.Click OK to close the Setup Properties dialog box.

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