At review time, the color printers and plotters at the GSD are a focus of great activity. Expect long lines of people trying to make prints on their own special paper. A few inexperienced people will discover printing problems at the last minute. Addressing the complex issue of color printing at the last minute will not make matters any easier. Plan ahead, and then plan ahead some more.
Experienced people expect to have problems, and work out inevitable kinks before crunch time.
The GSD color printing system has evolved to eliminate some of the confusion from color printing. One person could send 14 jobs from a Mac, her jobs would jump to the top of the queue - you can imagine the rest. The GSD color printers are not on the general network. This page explains how to make suitable print files, how to put them in the plottmp directory and print them from the plot stations. A description of our printers.