Photoshop 6 for Windows Bible- P29:If you are reading this foreword, it probably means that you’ve purchased a copy of Adobe Photoshop , and for that I and the rest of the Photoshop team at Adobe thank you. If you own a previous edition of the Photoshop Bible, you probably know what to expect. If not, then get ready for an interesting trip. | Chapter 18 Printing Images 813 Choosing a printer To select a printer choose Start Settings Printers. Right-click your printer of choice and select Set As Default on the resulting pop-up menu as shown in Figure 18-1. If you want to add a printer double-click the Add Printer icon and be sure to have either your Windows CD-ROM or a drivers disk from your printer manufacturer. Figure 18-1 Specify your default printer from inside the Printers window. Printer drivers help the PC hardware Windows and Photoshop translate the contents of an image to the printer hardware and the page-description language it uses. You generally want to select the driver for your specific model of printer. But you can if necessary prepare an image for output to a printer that isn t currently hooked up to your computer. For example you can use this technique prior to submitting a document to be output on an imagesetter at a service bureau. Most high-end Windows graphics applications can take advantage of PostScript printer description PPD files. A single driver can t account for the myriad differences between different models of PostScript printers so each PPD serves as a little guidance file customizing the driver to accommodate a specific printer model. Windows lets you attach a PPD file globally to your PostScript printer for which you need both the PPD file and the INF file to tell Windows what to install. Adobe offers its own printer driver called AdobePS available via which doesn t require INF files. The setup program works only for Adobe-licensed PostScript printers however. 814 Part V Color for Print and the Web Tip Windows also lets you switch printers from inside an application. Just choose X File - Page Setup Ctrl Shift P inside Photoshop and select the printer you want 1 to use from the Name pop-up menu. Photoshop 6 Setting up the page The next step is to define the relationship between the current image and the page on which it prints. In Photoshop 6 you handle most
