Are you using Adobe Illustrator to print?

[kandod]

Thank you tomcatinc for the response, but this is not a good solution because I will end up with dozens of printers for each combination of paper types, trays and sizes. Plus I am not looking for a workaround, the best one is to not use Illustrator at all, I want to rise some attention to the problem so that Adobe might make a fix for it.

[tomcatinc]

Well, either you will have dozens of printer drivers or you will have dozens of saved presets in Illustrator. Whichever way you go, your specific situation requires better output software, maybe a propper RIP.
And if you want Adobe to pay attention to your request, post it on their forums or make official request for it. If there is enough interest in such option, they will make it a key new feature of next update or edition. :-)

[MacTwidget]

What about setting up "Printing Presets..." from within Illustrator. You can set-up media size, tray, etc.

[kandod]

Print Presets dont work either. The same problem. I have filled a bug request in Adobe site but I dont want to wait for 2 versions as was the case with CS and CS2 for Adobe to make a fix for it, that's why I am ringing the bell, I can live perfectly with CS5, but very soon I will start to receive client files made in CS6 and will have to inevitably move up?

[Lukas Engqvist]

There used to be a utility called PPD editor, in which you could lock printer specific features. It would mean one PPD per set up. I know for you it appears as a bug even if it is a hand over from application to printer that you are finding problematic. The question is how much of a printers driver should a software have access to. It may be you need to mentally see it as Out of illustrator and In to the printer driver. Illustrator no longer meddles with what happens after you put it in to the printer driver, but what frustrates you is the handover. Like a customer that orders "the usual" and gets frustrated if you don't know what is his/her ususal.

[kandod]

I am pretty sure it is an Adobe bug and bug exactly, it was introduced with CS and it was that release that took many general changes in the engine, open Illustrator 10 and see how different the Print dialog screen looks like, and what makes me believe Adobe has to do with that is the fact that in CS3 and later that bug was not present. I have read the Adobe product mangers boasting that in this release (CS6) they completely rewrote many of the program routines, so my guess is that they have made similar bug as in CS.

[joseph]

Seriously speaking,I am not because I am on beginning position to learn this art that is why i am here too to have discussion with you people.
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[iamgemini]

I've had the same problem and I'm pretty sure it is an Adobe bug. We use Illustrator for all of our projects and just recently began experiencing this problem. It's also important to mention that we've used CS during the entire time we've been in business.

I'm also pretty sure that we submitted a report to Adobe concerning this bug (although I must admit that I am not in charge of troubleshooting most of the time). To my knowledge we have yet to hear back but I am betting that it is something that they are working on.