Chapter 10: printing, Setting up a printer, Printing with incopy – Adobe InCopy CC 2015 User Manual
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Chapter 10: Printing
Setting up a printer
Typically, the final printing process is done in Adobe® InDesign®, but you can use Adobe InCopy® to print drafts of your
stories in Galley, Story, or Layout view.
Printing with InCopy
InCopy typically links with an InDesign master document. The InDesign document is usually the ultimate source for
the final printing process, so many of the controls needed for production-quality printing are reserved for InDesign.
However, you can use InCopy to print drafts of your stories in either Galley, Story, or Layout view. The printed copy
looks similar to the document on the screen, depending on the view and print settings:
• In the Galley or Story view, InCopy prints unformatted text in a continuous column (or columns). You do not see
the document layout and formatting features.
• In the Layout view, InCopy prints the document as it appears on the screen, with frames and all other page elements
intact.
InCopy works with both Adobe PostScript® and non-PostScript printers, as well as other kinds of printing devices.
If you are using a PostScript printer, make sure that you have the printer driver with the correct, properly installed
PostScript Printer Description (PPD) file.
Note: InCopy does not support the format used by PDF Writer. If you attempt to print to PDF Writer, you will experience
delays or errors in printing.
About printer drivers
A printer driver lets you directly access printer features from applications on your computer. Having the correct driver
ensures that you have access to all of the features a particular printer supports.
Adobe recommends using the latest printer drivers, which are listed in the following table. If you encounter problems
with an older driver, upgrade to the latest driver for your operating system.
For more information on recommended and supported PostScript printer drivers, including installation instructions,
search the section on printer drivers on the Adobe website.
Some InCopy printing features appear in both the Print dialog box of InCopy and the printer driver dialog boxes. In
general, you should set options for such overlapping features only in the InCopy Print dialog box; InCopy ignores
duplicate settings specified in the printer driver dialog box. The instructions in this section can help you work with the
overlapping options.
Operating system
Printer driver
Windows® XP
Pscript 5 (system driver)
Mac OS 10.2 (or later)
Built-in PS Driver for Mac OS X