inkjet photo printers: eps files

I realize that inkjet printers are not PostScript devices. Accordingly,
an eps file (placed into a PageMaker or Quark layout) prints out fuzzy,
unlike the crisp output of my my laser printer. However, why is it that
when I print an eps file directly from Illustrator, it comes out crisp
as a fresh cucumber? This is true on my new Canon i960 (which I LOVE!!)
and my old HP DeskWriter 600.

 

nosredna:

The reason that you can print good PS or EPS files from Adobe Illustrator
and not other Apps is that it has the necessary PS/EPS internal print driver
for printing PS or EPS while other apps do not. We have the same situation
at work, where we've been making digital maps for about 9 years. The
mapping software can produce and print PS and EPS, while all of our other
software cannot. I have to explain this to my boss all the time.

Steve

 

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An app like AI [or any other] will save as EPS with particular format
headers and footers inside the EPS file that are not being properly
interpreted by the other apps. I use an AI art pack, for example, that is
supplied by Adobe in native AI EPS format and so renders the basic artwork
in AI normally - BUT - if I intend to lay out in QuarkXPress I usually exit
AI by saving as a TIFF. That is then a native QuarkXPress image file format
that can be directly imported into XPress.

Exiting XPress with complete pages is almost always via a PS file then
converted via Adobe Distiller to PDF as it goes to the printer.

Another example is with Photoshop and some EPS files - I can not open the
same AI art pack library EPSs in Photoshop that I use for AI - PS will only
see them as "locked" files. ("can not parse the file - it is locked")

MS Publisher is another headache. The most effective way I have found to
manage Publisher output is to print-to-file from a post script driver and
distil to PDF for printing or cross app use.

You ain't seen nothin yet - try working cross platform from Mac to Win to
Mac. Pass the aspirin please! The one thing that does go both ways, and
completely correct virtually every time, is PDF.


Journalist