Re: Is InDesign doing something special?

[Pete MacKenzie <petemackenzie@lineone.net>]

Gary

You need to expand on this a bit

> 740 printer driver version 5.57E, MacOS 9.1
> 
> I discovered I could get really good text results on some 25% cotton paper I
> had using InDesign -> pdf -> printer.

Was this on version 1.5 0r 2.0?

>If I print directly from InDesign 2.0, the upper left corner of the page
>comes out with too much ink.

What does too much ink mean?

> Then I tried the same text, font and size in FileMaker and Word. They give me
> the crummy results over all.
 
What do you mean by crummy? In InDesign are you using any printer styles?
Transparency? Colour management?

>Converting them to pdf (via Distiller) does not improve things even though
>the pdfs from all the different apps look the same on the screen.

> I'm ready to pull my hair out. What's going on here? -- Gary -

For me InDesign prints well to an Epson 1290.

Pete

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