Problems with Canon printer and InDesign

[wdl71]

I have no idea what I am doing wrong but I am trying to get InDesign to properly print from a new printer. It is a Canon MP830 which has 2 black cartridges-one dye based ink (for photo prints) and one pigment based (for text). Trying as hard as I can I cannot get InDesign to use the pigment cartridge and, since its using the dye based, all black text now comes out faded. I can trick it into using the correct cartridge by clicking on the default button on the printer dialog thru setup-but since most of my printouts are Landscape and duplexed-this obviously prints out wrong. This is the 3rd printer that's been on this system and it has garbage from the previous 2. No other programs (other than Adobe's) have this problem. The free printer that came with a notebook comp. prints better black text. I have been thru tech support, forums, and googling with no success. Any ideas are most welcome. Thanx in advance.

 

[eugenetyson]

Seems like you'd want to try the printer settings when you go to print, see if you can choose that cartridge or something. But most likely it's not a postscript printer. You should see if you can get some postscript drivers for it. I'm not really that much up on postscript printers/drivers etc. so perhaps someone could clear that up.

However, you could export to pdf at high quality setting and try print it from Acrobat. That has it's own postscript printing engine, I believe.