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Printing in the Labs

This area contains important tips on troubleshooting your print problems and updated information about printing in the labs. In order for students and faculty to print to the lab printers, including the color printer, and the wide-format color printer, we have setup scripts to add the printers to laptops and office machines. Please visit the following site to download the scripts: http://www.design.iastate.edu/PRINTERS/

Print Tip 0001 (Digital Coffee Break) - Troubleshooting Printing Problems

Print Tip 0002 (Digital Coffee Break) - Tips on Printing to the Epson ColorWide

Print Tip 0004 - Printing from Adobe Reader 6

Print Tip 0005 - Printing to the Canon Color Printer from MacOS X

Print Tip 0006 - Printing to the Canon Color Printer from Windows

Print Tip 0007 - Printing to the Epson Wide Printer from MacOS X

Print Tip 0008 - Printing to the Epson Wide Printer from Windows

Print Tip 0009 - How to print to the KIP Printer - this includes instructions for setting up custom page sizes.

**** Print Tip 0010 - How to Print to Non-Letter-Sized Paper from Windows - Read this is you are having a problem getting your files to print to 11 x 17 or 12 x 18 paper on the Color or Lab Printer (lab printer is black and white only, with a max size of 11 x 17).

**** Print Tip 0012 - Having problems printing to the Canon Color Printer, when using Windows Vista™? Download this printer driver package, and follow the directions in this tutorial to reinstall the color printer.

QuarkXPress 6

Basic Printing from QXP 6
Setting up Print Styles in QXP 6
Fixing Corrupt Printing Preferences
Export your Layout as a PDF

Photoshop

Photoshop Tutorial 0010 - How to Speed up Printing to the Color Printers in Photoshop - You can dramatically speed up printing to the Color Printer in two simple steps!

Illustrator

Illustrator Tutorial 0004 - Saving your File as a PDF - If you are having problems with certain elements on your image not showing up on the printed page, you will want to save your file as a PDF and print it from Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader).

Illustrator Tutorial 0005 - How to Tile an Image to Print Across Multiple Pages - If you would like to print a file on the color printer that is larger than 12 x 18 inches, you can use Illustrator to tile the image across multiple pages! This way, you can do a cheaper preview of files you intend to print to the Epson ColorWide later.

Illustrator Tutorial 0006 - Solution to the "More than 27 spot colors and transparency" Printing Error - If you get an error message in Illustrator CS 2 when you try to print to our postscript printers, there is a fairly simple solution. In Illustrator CS 1, this error usually showed up as "Can't Print Illustration." Helpful, right? With CS 2, we finally have an informative error message that not only tells us what the problem actually is, but also gives us a clue as to how to fix it!

InDesign

InDesign Tutorial 0005 - Exporting a File as a PDF - If you are having problems with certain elements on your image not showing up on the printed page, you will want to export your file as a PDF and print it from Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader).

AutoCAD

Article 0034 - Exporting Layouts to PDF from AutoCAD - Attempting to print from layout space in AutoCAD can be tediously slow. To improve print times, export your print layout to a PDF file.

Legacy Information

Print Tip 0003 - AdobePS Error and Solution - MacOS 9 only