David Blatner from IndesignSecrets.com has a great post about a problem that a lot of people are experiencing with Inkjet printers and Adobe Indesign CS3. He writes, “There does appear to be a problem with printing from InDesign CS3 to non-PostScript printers (such as inkjets) on the Mac. This is a significant problem for people using inkjet printers for proofing, and especially for photographers, who often use inkjets for their final output.”
David sources Chris Murhpy a color management expert with the following solution: “The workaround is to enable “Print as Bitmap” in the Advanced pane of the Print dialog in InDesign. This causes IDCS3 to do the conversion and generate a bitmap prior to submitting to the OS (the default behavior with IDCS2), rather than depending on the OS to do color conversion or rasterizing. Thus you can use the same ICC profiles and print driver settings as with all other Adobe applications if you choose this option.”
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