Reply To: PDF to an office printer: colour and greyscale

Thanks Tom for your suggestions. Your assumptions are correct.

1. Sadly, printing direct from InDesign isn't an option, or at least not an easy one. The printer is in the church office; I don't have a laptop capable of running InDesign, and the church computer is a PC (the software I have is for Mac).

2. My print tests suggest that the printer expects RGB input (certainly RGB gives much better results). I've hunted through the driver options and the instruction manual and can't find anything about selecting RGB or CMYK. I've turned on the option in InDesign for outputting black as true black in RGB; I haven't seen the print results yet for that, but I was told yesterday by the chap who printed the PDF I'd sent that the printer was still accounting all pages as colour.

3. I'm not sure what you mean by 'gives up colour control to the printer'. Looking at the manual, I can only see options for selecting between colour and greyscale output. (There are lots of other options and settings, of course, but that's the only one that seems to have to do with colour.)

Next time I'm down there I'll have another poke through the print settings and see if I can find anything more.

Thanks for your help!