Print Engine Laser Printer

[mjsmith1568]

Has anyone heard of an available, or upcoming color laser printer that supports the Adobe Print Engine. I don't mean a Workflow or Digital Press, but a $1000 to $4000 color laser that will process my PDFs without flattening.

I know HP uses their own PostScript, but Xerox has always used true Adobe, but all their offerings are still PS Level 3 which flatten to PostScript, even when sending a PDF directly.

Sorry for the rant, but Adobe just announced Print Engine 2, and we still can't proof a PDF correctly before we send a PDF off to a printer.

 

[rich apollo]

Are you wanting to see overprints and such - like you would from a separated file? Will the "Simulate Overprint" option show you what you need?

 

[mjsmith1568]

Sure, Simulate overprinting will work, but it takes forever to process. I'm hoping that a Print Engine solution will process significantly faster, and free up my computer much much faster.

If your PDF uses any kind of compression that is not part of a level 3 interpreter (JPEG2000 for example), it all must be decompressed before it is sent down to the printer. This will really slow things down.

It seems odd to me that Adobe is pushing Print Engine for high end work flows, but there is still no continuity between designers and printers, because companies like Xerox, can't produce a laser printer for designers that uses the same interpreter as the big guys.

Are they pricing it such that it does not make sense to add a $2000 Print Engine interpreter to a $2000 color laser printer?