Louis Desjardins wrote: > ? (At) 12h49 +0800 19/07/04, Craig Ringer ?crivait (wrote) : > >> On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 05:57, Wayne Maeda wrote: >> >> > Is it possible to print out a pdf document (with text and >> graphics) in Windows >> >>> so that the graphics print out at 75 lpi while the text remains >>> crisp and >> >> > dark black? I was under the assumption that it could be done. Most >> of the >> >>> newspapers that I deal with request their ads to be in pdf format. >>> They must >> >> > be printing them out at a certain linescreen somehow someway. >> >> At my workplace (a newspaper) we prefer PDFs from clients. Our printer's >> RIP is what makes the decisions on linescreen, etc, and it clearly >> treats text and graphics differently. It's obvious when we've had to use >> a TIFF instead, or when a client has supplied a PDF of an image of the >> ad, because the text comes out with awful grainy edges due to the >> linescreen. > > > Hi Craig, > Hi Wayne, > Hi everybody, > > This is an interesting discussion. I apologize in advance for all the > shortcuts in the following answer; we could write a book on that > subject...
This is all quite interesting, including the subsequent comments. What I was wondering is where these issues of printing format, number of colors, etc., make a big difference for printing costs -- or is this different with different printing shops? Greg
