Setting Photo-quality print on Mac OS 10.4

Can't seem to find photo-quality setting

[peterdouglas]

I have to print off a screen shot of a proposed website. It must on high quality semi-gloss paper. When I print now, the pictures get all blotchy. There must be a way to set it to print in high quality or photo quality.

The printer itself does not have these settings (Epson Stylus CX6600). I've been told that must be set in the print setting on the computer. The person who told me knows how to do it on a PC, but not on a Mac. Any ideas?

[travelin cat]

Are you referrring to an actual screen shot? If so, that will be 72dpi and will NEVER look good even with the best printer you can buy....

[peterdouglas]

This is a hi-res jpeg I made in Photoshop, more like a mock-up of a proposed website. I used the wrong word, it's not a screenshot, sorry for the confusion.

Anyone know how to adjust the settings? It's an Epson all-in-one printer, I need to know how to adjust it to high quality printing through the computer. On a PC it would be in the print options, on a Mac this doesn't seem to exist.

[travelin cat]

Are you using system X?

If so the printer controls are in the "Print" window.

In Photoshop choose Print from the file menu there will be 3 pop up menus in the next pane, Printer, Presets and one unmarked that defaults to Copies & Pages, use this one and choose "Printer Features"...in there you will find other pop up menus, one is Media Type, another is Print Quality and another is called Resolution.

That should give you eveything you need.

[peterdouglas]

Thanks, that's great! I found the settings, but it seems my Epson printers just aren't capable of printing what I want, no matter what the settings. It worked fine on a Hewlett Packard and on a Lexmark (with a PC).

[madmac]

I actually find this pretty annoying that I cannot specifically set what resolution my printer should use. It can go pretty high, but I have not idea if picking the "highest quality" setting will actually max out the printers res.

I question this because when I was on windows, choosing the "highest quality" setting from printing preferences was not actually the highest resolution the printer could do. You had to go into advanced settings to max out the printer's res if you wanted to.

You can't do this on OS X and the "user friendly" setting picker won't even tell you how high the highest quality is, leaving me questioning if it really is using the printer to its full capabilities.