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PostScript-only output options

PostScript-only output options - Illustrator Tutorial

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PostScript-only output options

In this exercise I'm going to introduce you to the Output and Graphics options, all of which are exclusively applicable to PostScript printing. So, here's the idea in case you don't know, PostScript is the industry standard printing language and virtually every professional level imagesetter or a plate making device out there uses PostScript. However, very few office printers do. So your personal inkjet device, very unlikely that it has anything resembling PostScript. Same way with your laser printer or your LaserJet printer, there are exceptions out there, I've got a Tektronix Phaser 750, fairly old model device back in my office, that's equipped with PostScript, but I paid extra for that, and I needed it to proof the quality of my book projects. However, more likely than not, you don't have a PostScript printer. That doesn't mean that you don't want to know about these options however, in the event that you'd like to have a reasonably informed conversation with your commercial…

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