Advanced printing procedures [macintosh, Adobe illustrator 8.0 [macintosh – Roland ColorChoice Ver. 4.5 User Manual

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Advanced Printing Procedures [Macintosh]

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

Adobe 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 Setup>Setup Properties. Then click the Print Tab.

2. Make sure the Perform Color Correction checkbox has a check in it.

3. In the ICC input profile area, select appropriate CMYK and RGB profiles. If you know which profiles your

application is using, select that profile. If you don’t, use the default settings.

4. For the ICC output profile, select the appropriate ink/media combination. Also select a rendering intent to

use.

5. Click

OK in the Setup Properties dialog box.

6. Go to Apple menu and select Chooser. Highlight Adobe PS and make sure Printer Name RIP@... is

selected.

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

8. Select

Use printers default screen’ in ‘Options’, and then check Use Page Setup and click the Page

Setup button.

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

10. 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.

11. Select

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

12. Click

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

13. Go

to

File>Color Setting and check ‘Simulate print colors on display’ if you want your monitor to soft-

proof CMYK output.

14. Go

to

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

number of copies.

15. 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.

16. 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 Printing, if you want to keep the file in the Print
Monitor.

17. Click

Print to start printing.

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