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Installing the plug-in: Macintosh

The PhaserPrint Plug-in is automatically installed with the software installation option Easy Install.

Installing the plug-in: Windows

Using the plug-in

1. If you don't already have a default printer selected, do the following:
• Macintosh: Open the Chooser. Select a PostScript driver (such as the Apple LaserWriter 8); select your printer. PhaserPrint software works like a printer driver, and prints to the printer you selected in the Chooser.
• Windows: Within the PhaserPrint software, select your printer and port, as described in Print using (Windows).
2. Open Photoshop. Open an image file.
3. From the File menu, select Export. Select PhaserPrint; the PhaserPrint dialog box appears.
4. In the Printer Model field, select your printer.
5. PhaserPrint software supports the following image modes selected from Photoshop's Mode menu. If you select a mode not listed here, an error message appears and your image is not printed.
• Bitmap
• Grayscale
• Indexed Color
• RGB Color
• CMYK Color
• Lab Color

Selecting options in the PhaserPrint dialog box

Settings you make in the PhaserPrint plug-in remain in effect until you change them. The exception is Number of Copies, which defaults to 1 each time you start the plug-in.

You can get information on any of the plug-in's features or printer-specific options with the online Help function.

Number of copies

Enter the number of copies to print, from 1 to 1000.

Print using (Macintosh)

The Print using pop-up menu lets you choose between printing an image or saving the image to disk.

• AppleTalk Prints the image to the printer currently selected in the Chooser; the currently selected printer name is displayed in the Printer model field. If the selected printer is not a PostScript printer, this option is unavailable (grayed-out).
• PostScript file Saves an image to disk as a PostScript file. Click Save; a dialog box lets you choose a new or existing file for saving the PostScript code.
  
  When selected, the File format pop-up menu becomes available. This pop-up menu has two options: ASCII base-85 and Binary.
• ASCII base-85 Image data is encoded using an ASCII base-85 filter during file output, making the resulting PostScript file portable, and downloadable through interface ports that don't support binary data.
• Binary Image data is output in binary format.

Print using (Windows)

The Print using pop-up menu lets you choose between printing an image or saving the image to disk. It has two to four options, depending on your system configuration:

• TCP/IP Available if a TCP/IP stack is installed and running. From Printer model, choose a printer. Add and delete printers in the list, and edit the printer configurations.

NOTE TCP/IP is the fastest printing method; it prints jobs in much less time than the Parallel Port or Printer Driver methods, and is the recommended method if it is available for the printer you are using.

• Local Port Available if you have local ports installed in your PC. From the Port Name, choose the desired printer port.
• Printer Driver Prints the image through the selected printer driver. From Driver name, choose a printer.
• PostScript file Saves an image to disk as a PostScript file. Click Save; a dialog box lets you choose a new or existing file for saving the PostScript code.
  
  When selected, the File format pop-up menu becomes available. This pop-up menu has two options: ASCII base-85 and Binary.
• ASCII base-85 Image data is encoded using an ASCII base-85 filter during file output, making the resulting PostScript file portable so that it can be downloaded through interface ports that don't support binary data. Note that the file may be up to 25% larger.
• Binary Image data is output in binary format. Recommended for network printing only (not for the parallel port).

Printer name

Displays the currently selected printer.

Printer model

• Lists all printers supported by PhaserPrint software.
• When you select your printer model, PhaserPrint displays the correct options for your printer.

Media size (selection)

• Paper sizes are printer-specific; refer to the online Help for your printer's options. Select your printer in the Printer model field before selecting a paper size.

Color Correction

• The setting remains in effect until you change it.
• Color Corrections are not available if the Photoshop Mode is Lab.
• If RGB is the selected Mode in Photoshop, the Calibrated RGB option is also available.

Media

• The setting remains in effect until you change it.

Quality

• The setting remains in effect until you change it.

Rendering Intent

• Available in the following cases:
• If the Mode in Photoshop is RGB, and you select Calibrated RGB as the Color Correction in PhaserPrint.
• If the Mode in Photoshop is Lab.
• Calibrated RGB and Lab modes take longer to print than other modes because the printer must convert for printing CIE colors to RGB or CMYK colors.

Compress Image Data

• Compresses image data so that less data is sent to the printer or stored in a file.
• Useful if your network connection is slow, for example, if you are connected to a busy network or if you are using LocalTalk or a parallel port. For fast networks, printing may be faster without using this option.
• The setting remains in effect until you change it.
• Default is on.

Fast preview

• Quick print of your image with slightly reduced image quality.
• Reflects the printer color correction you selected.
• For the fastest printing, use the None color correction option.
• Default is off.

Output face up

• Print a document face-up, stacking pages so that the first page is on the bottom: Check this option on.
• Print a document face-down, stacking the pages face-down in the order they are printed. Check this option off.
• The setting remains in effect until you change it.
• Default is on.
• Transparencies and prints made from the Multi-Purpose Tray stack face-up only.

Check Print

• Available only with the printer's Plus Features option.
• Check Print must be enabled in the printer's front panel.
• When sending a multiple-copy print job to the printer through the driver, you can select Check Print to preview the first page of the job, and determine if the job is printing as expected before proceeding with the remainder of the job. This option is especially useful when printing many copies.

1. Click the Check Print check box.
2. Check your first print. At the Check Print message on the printer's front panel, press one of the buttons:
• Reprint Reprints the first page, the printer pauses again for the duration of the selected timeout, or until you press one of the buttons.
• Cancel Cancels the print job.
• Continue Continues printing the entire job.

• At the printer's front panel, set the Check Print timeout.
• Default is off.

Image Smoothing

• Blends adjacent colors so that color transitions are less noticeable.
• Use this option when the image being printed was scanned at a lower resolution than the printer's output resolution. For example, printing an image scanned at 72 dpi using the printer's Standard print quality mode (300 dpi).
• Images printed using Image Smoothing appear with less sharp detail but with smoother color transitions.
• Default is off.

Stylized representation of the page

• The lower left area of the dialog box displays a stylized representation of the page as it would look when printed using the current selections in the Scale, Scale to fit, Printer model, Media size (selection), Landscape orientation, Replicate images, Center images, and Image separation options. When you change any of these selections, the representation of the page is redrawn to reflect the new selection.
• If Show color preview of image is on, an approximate color image is displayed.

Scaling an image

• Scale to fit
• Scales an image to the largest size that fits the image area of the currently selected page size or orientation.
• Automatically updates the Scale  field value.
• Scale
• Type the percentage the image should be scaled, from 10 percent to 2000 percent.
• Use with the Replicate images option to produce multiple copies of an image on a single page.
• Alert message Image clipping will occur.

This message appears in the PhaserPrint dialog box whenever a scaled image will not fit within the image area of the currently selected page size or orientation option.

Landscape orientation

• Prints the image horizontally (landscape) on the page. Leave this box unchecked to print the image vertically (portrait) on the page.
• Refer to the Stylized representation of the page, in the lower left corner of the dialog box, to see how your selection will look when printed.

Center images

• Centers the image in the page's image area.
• If this box is not checked, the lower left corner of the image is aligned with the lower left corner of the printable area of the page.
• If the Center images box is checked and the Replicate images box is checked, the set of replicated images are centered in the image area of the page.

Replicate images

• Fills the page's image area with as many copies of the image as will fit.
• The size of each replicated image is determined by the setting in the Scale text box.
• If the size of each replicated image (shown as black rectangles in the stylized representation of the page) is too small to display, the total image area of the printed page is shown as a single gray rectangle.

Image size

• Reflects the dimensions, in inches or millimeters, of the image.
• If the value in the Scale box is out-of-range, the image dimensions are displayed with question marks.

Image separation

• Only available if the Replicate images box is checked.
• Type an amount, in inches or millimeters (depending on your system's measurement standard), to specify the amount of separation between each replicated image.
• A larger amount reduces the number of images that can be printed at one time.
• Minimum allowed separation value is 0.
• Maximum separation value is 100  mm ( 4  inches).
• Default separation value is 3.175  mm ( 0.125 /one-eighth inches).
• Valid characters for this field are 0 to 9 and a period (or decimal point).
• As you type a value, the stylized representation of the page, and Number of images and Image layout values are dynamically updated. If the value entered in the Image separation field is out-of-range, the values in these other fields are replaced by question marks, and no images are shown in the stylized representation of the page. If the value is out-of-range, and you click Print or Save, the following alert is displayed:

Number of images

• Displays the number of scaled images that will fit in the image area of the currently selected Media size (selection) and Landscape orientation options.
• Number of images reflects the current Image separation value.
• If the Replicate images box is not checked, this number is set to  1.
• If either Scale or Image separation values are out-of-range, a question mark is displayed.

Image layout

• Shows how the scaled images will fit horizontally and vertically in the image area of the currently selected Media and Landscape orientation options.
• Image layout reflects the current Image separation value.
• If the Replicate images box is not checked, this number is set
  to 1 x 1.
• If either Scale or Image separation values are out-of-range, question marks are displayed.

Media size (display)

Reflects the dimensions, in inches or millimeters, of the selected media size.

Show color preview of image

Displays an approximate color image, rather than a black box, in the Stylized representation of the page field.