From: Bruce Walker
On 11-05-03 11:06 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> I bought a color laser printer a while back to print business cards.
> The laser printer duplexes and I intend to print on 110# Ivory Card
> Stock. I can fit two of the cards on one sheet.
>
> My design is a two-sided, tri-fold card (3-1/2" x 6") with 3 small
> portraits on one side and a "fine-art" landscape on the other with
> room for the appropriate text along the bottom edge on both sides. It
> folds up to the size of a standard business card.
>
> I created an image template in Photoshop that I can import into my
> word processor. I figured out how to import the template twice so that
> the images on each side line up properly. I export the word processor
> document as a PDF that I can print directly from Acrobat Reader.
>
> I'm creating the PDF file on my laptop & transferring the PDF file to
> this computer that has the color laser printer using a thumb drive.
> Eventually I'll get my network transferred back here to Raleigh and
> will be able to print to the color laser directly from the laptop.
>
> In the meantime ...
>
> What I want to know is there anything I particularly need to do to the
> images themselves before saving them as a jpeg to import into my word
> processor? My first test run on regular paper looks pretty dark, with
> the shadows kind of blocked up.
>
> Would profiling the printer help since I'm not printing from Photoshop?
I've not tried this so it's a best-guess: I'd say profiling the printer
would help to get the images adjusted *before* you save them for
importing into the WP. True you aren't printing directly from PS, but
you are printing images that came from PS so that much can be
pre-compensated at least.
Do you have a colorimeter that can read the images off the printed cards?
I'll probably have to use one of those services where you print out a
file they provide and mail it off to them & they create the profile for
you to download.
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