Outputting to Non-Postscript Printers

A user was wondering about why his CorelDRAW art wasn't printing as expected.
He wrote: "You'll notice how the shadow appears on the screen, but will not appear on the print out, on any printer i am using. Mostly HP, laser and inkjets."

I'd wrote: If those printers aren't "Postscript Compatible"... you are going to struggle. I'd found this out myself, the hard way, many years ago.

I'd bought an HP 1100 brand new for about $600.00, thinking this ought to be good enough for my kind of work. Well...not really.

Printing his file "as is" to my HP 1100? After 12 min of ripping, it failed - nothing printed. There's only 2 MB of Ram on that printer. It just locked up.



So, after this setting, it printed fine;



You may have to do this for any printer that is not Postscript, if you are using lenses, drop shadows or other fancy effects in your file.

Either that, or convert the whole thing to hi-res bitmap. See my post: http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/4647.aspx

Regular printers can't normally handle some of Draw's (or Illustrator's) complex artwork, regardless of shadow method.