And, to make things even more confusing, the control is always disabled! If you figure this one out, please e-mail me and explain it!ĭuplex Printing & Margin controls the print area used and how double-sided prints are laid out. I have yet to figure out why you have an option to set how much of an extension there is to a border that doesn't exist. When using printer color management, the try setting Print Type to Photo and Brightness to Normal.įigure 4.36 Special Effects has controls for printing toned images and automatic color correction and enhancement.īorderless Printing is a puzzle to me. If you select None as the Color Correction method, the Print Type and Brightness controls will be disabled and you should leave the Color Balance and Intensity sliders at their midpoint default values, unless you need to correct a color cast problem. I'll cover the proper print settings in Photoshop in Chapter 7. When printing from Photoshop you'll want to select None to avoid having profiles applied to your print twice when using Photoshop to manage color. Color Correction gives you the choice of using the printer's color management, ColorSync, or None. The other critical set of controls, Color Options settings determine the type of color management used by the printer. The next choice in the Print dialog box's pop-up is Color Options ( Figure 4.35). Although this does remove problems with color casts, black-only prints have less tonal range and usually result in lower-quality prints.įigure 4.34 Quality & Media contains the all-important options for selecting the proper paper type as well as what quality level you want your print to be. Finally, Grayscale Printing forces the printer to use only black ink. For photos, you'll want to select Printing a Top-Quality Photo (kind of obvious, isn't it?).

Paper Source lets you select which paper path to use if your printer supports multiple paths, and Print Mode sets the quality of print.

The paper type you select will control how much ink the printer places on the page, and a wrong selection can, and likely will, lead to a wasted print. Be careful to select the proper media type to avoid problems with print quality. Canon printer optionsĬhoosing Quality & Media ( Figure 4.34), the first Canon-specific choice in the Print dialog box's pop-up menu, takes you to the important settings for photographic prints. In the next sections, I'll cover the options added by two popular brands of printers: Canon and Epson. The settings associated with the Cover Page choice probably won't be of interest to photographers unless you share a printer in a network environment and want to have an identifying sheet between print jobs.īelow Cover Page are the specific choices your printer adds to the pop-up menu list. If you want to apply special effects to your prints without using an application that includes that support, the Quartz Filters have several tone controls for black-and-white or other monochrome prints and an overall way to increase and decrease image brightness. The default settings here are normally the best choice-Color Conversion left at Standard, and Quartz Filter left at None, especially if you're printing from Photoshop or any other application that supports color management. When you select the pop-up menu's ColorSync, you can then set Color Conversion to Standard or In Printer and turn on Quartz Filter. If you have several prints to do, this is a great way to have them print at a time when you're not using the computer for other things.Ĭhoose Paper Handling from the pop-up menu for options to set page order, page size, and scaling, as well as to print all, odd-numbered only, or even-numbered only pages. Scheduler allows you to set when the print will be done, and what priority to give the job. Figure 4.33 The Layout options let you select how many pages are printed to a physical sheet of paper and in what order to print them.

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