Hi,
I've got CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 with SP1 installed on my Win7 x64 PC. My printer is Samsung SCX-3205 and drivers are updated to the latest version.
When I select print in DRAW it won't print - it only prints to file (DRAW can't open the .prn file afterwards, it crashes or gives me an error message or both). I simply can't get it to print directly to printer.
Print works just fine in Corel PHOTO-PAINT X5 and I had never problems with printing my files directly from DRAW in any previous version.
Any help appreciated.
Dan
If you have CorelDRAW Home & Student Suite X5 and you find that (1) you see no 'Print to file' option in CorelDRAW's 'Print...' dialog and (2) you're only able to print to file and you can't print to your printer, try this:
1/ Quit CorelDRAW2/ Find the following file:C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Corel\CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5\Custom Data\Print Styles\CorelDRAW Defaults.prs3/ Open the file in a text editor4/ Find the line that says: "PrintToFile=1"5/ Change it to: "PrintToFile=0" 6/ Save the file and close7/ Now open CorelDRAW and try printing
Out ouf curiosity, why would you print to file. Thinking back in the old days, really old day, one would print to file so you could save a file to disk and directed(copied to) the file to a specific computer port (LPTI) on the existing computer, which connected to the printer. Or loaded the disk to a computer that had printers and copied the file to the print port, which printed the file. With the advent of USB ports that capibility disappeared. Or am I remembering incorrectly.
Jack
Lately, I have too much month left at the end of the money!
Jack Ross:hinking back in the old days, really old day, one would print to file so you could save a file to disk and directed(copied to) the file to a specific computer port (LPTI) on the existing computer
I'm with you.. :)
That's how we used to drive the first Linotronics that accepted digital data.
51/2 inch floopies ruled !
Cheers,Chris
Actually, Guys, I use the print to file option a lot
I use it to send separated plates to my screenprinters as well as use it to bring files into Ghostscript to output halftones to non-postscript printers
........works like a charm
ColorYourWorld:I use it to send separated plates to my screenprinters
Why wouldn't you use this:
and then:
for your screenprinters? or are they the not PS you were writing about?
Mike
Current System: i3 3.07ghz, 3gb ram, Windows 7 32 bit with all updates and X6
Daniel__: Hi Ralph. One thing could help you. Try to uninstall the whole thing, clear appdata/roaming/corel folder, restart, then reinstall. I'm sure it will help. Let me know. Dan
Hi Ralph. One thing could help you. Try to uninstall the whole thing, clear appdata/roaming/corel folder, restart, then reinstall. I'm sure it will help. Let me know.
Hi Dan,
Thanks - I can identify with your experience - Corel support folk telling me THERE IS a checkbox !! Odd how folk imply that you must be daft.
Anyway - I may try your remedy but ...
I've got so incensed by all those arbitrary cuts, errors and omissions which make using that H&S version into an absolute undocumented nightmare, and I really don't see how anyone can market a product saying "this is cheaper than usual and we can't tell you what's in it and won't give you any support".
For my money it's not of merchantable quality and unfit for purpose - so I'm after the vendors for a refund.
When you count what you get, and it's not upgradeable - it isn't cheap.
I don't buy that line that it may be crap but you only paid £80 for it, so get over it.
Student versions of MS Office etc, make Corel look like regular skinflints.
RD
Mike, how exactly would that work?
Obviously I use the color sep dialogs. if I'm printing the transparencies in house, that's where the process ends. I let Corel do the seps (or in some cases, manually do the seps) and print them out. All done.
But what good would that be if I needed to send each sep plate to someone? I have a lot of printers who print the tranparencies out themselves so they don't have to physically pick them up from me.
Printing to file creates a multi-page ps file. Each plate (color) already separated
There's no other way, (that I know of) to do that except to manually cut/paste each plate onto a new page and spending a veritable boatload of time welding, trimming, combining etc. to get the plates ready for burning.
Beyond that, if I choose to print the seps on my regular old desktop inkjet (instead of a ps printer), printing to file enables me to open the file in Ghostview and get halftones from any ordinary printer.
Perhaps I'm not understanding your question.
Corel's Separation dialog boxes are great. I use them everyday, all day long. But using them without also using the print to file option won't do anything to help with the actual creation of tangible separate plates
In your example above, how would you email the separate plates to someone?
Hello ralph; You can try the "F8" trick, hold down the the F8 key and start CorelDraw that will do a reset. And you can put the CD in and do a "Repair"
George
ColorYourWorld:But what good would that be if I needed to send each sep plate to someone?
No good.
ColorYourWorld:I have a lot of printers who print the tranparencies out themselves so they don't have to physically pick them up from me.
As a printer I do my own separations and print my own plates. I hate when I get them from a designer, because they usually do them wrong.(not saying you do)
ColorYourWorld:There's no other way, (that I know of) to do that except to manually cut/paste each plate onto a new page and spending a veritable boatload of time welding, trimming, combining etc. to get the plates ready for burning.
I don't know what you are printing your transparencies on in house but I can print plates or transparencies to my Xante, from corel, using the separations page and get any angle I want, with or without crops and what ever. Spots, process, doesn't matter. (won't work on non PS devices)
ColorYourWorld:to help with the actual creation of tangible separate plates
It does, if you are actually making plates. It sounds to me like you are making art files that you then send off to another printer who actually makes a physical plate.
ColorYourWorld:In your example above, how would you email the separate plates to someone?
And this is why I think we are mis-communicating. I mean actually print a physical Plate that goes on the Press. When you say Plate, you mean "a file" that someone else can print a plate from.
Maybe we are miscommunicating
I didn't realize we were getting into a semantics issue. I thought I made it clear that the 'plate' I was talking about was indeed the file (the transparency) that would be used for burning a screen. How could you assume I was talking about anything else?
I often need to send the individual separated color files to my screenprinters instead of just printing them out here, in house.
There is no other (reasonable) way do to that without printing to file that I'm aware of.
Again, if you know I better way, I'm all ears, Mike.
Unlike you, there are MANY screeners out there who do not create their own artwork and seps.
I've been doing this for 30+ years, be assured that I know my printers very well and know how each and every one of them prefers to have their files created.
Back to the original question.................Yes, there is a need to print to file. I use the option all the time.
Hi |George,
Thanks for your note. Sadly a "repair" wouldn't do the biz - the issue is that the necessary piece of code is not there on the H&S version.
It isn't some kind of installation error, it's a mod made to the version.
R
ColorYourWorld: How could you assume I was talking about anything else? I often need to send the individual separated color files to my screenprinters instead of just printing them out here, in house.
How could you assume I was talking about anything else?
I only have printing presses for paper here. For screen printing I sub that work out. I always send a composite EPS file and let the screen printer do their own separations.
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FosterCoburn: As the Home and Student version is not licensed to be used for business, some features related to business were removed.
I'm sure most H&S users already know that - but I'd guess that many others (like me) would feel that printing the output from your graphics app is NOT a uniquely "business" activity.
It also begs the question of whether it makes sense to have a Help file that describes operations that are not possible because the function doesn't exist in the software.
Many other mfrs (eg Adobe) sell "Lite" versions of their products, but those are not anonymously crippled, they have their own Help files - and they sell for realistically lower prices.
FosterCoburn:In this case we are talking about separations and I consider that a business function and understand completely why it was removed from the H&S version
Actually this thread is about H&S CorelDRAW X5 - that only prints to file - it got subverted along the way !!
>> "Most of us have never used the H&S version " ...
and yet Corel Support point users to this forum, maybe they don't realise that there is some strange elitism at work here !
"Elimination" wow - that's a bit heavy