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pgolang1
pgolang1
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August 6, 2019
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I have colors & BLack\White on network printers- B\W printing charge is fraction of color printing. Is it possible to assign "Each Page" within PDF file. to color/or B\W printer? pdf file

  • August 6, 2019
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Hello

A mixed PDF file where some pages are Black/White, where some are Color.

Few printers available on the network, low cost per page B\W and expansive color printer.

Is it possible to assign each page within PDF file to a difference printer, call: B/W text pages to B\W printer, Color Images to color printers ???.   

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Correct answer Dov Isaacs

No such facility exists within Acrobat. And within PDF, there is no official concept of a color versus black and white page.

Many digital printers that have different “click charges” for color versus black and white automatically determine if a page is color or not. And both Acrobat and Reader do attempt to avoid unexpected color charges with a feature for PostScript printers that causes R=G=B text, vector, and images to be rendered only with black (i.e., grayscale). But there is no facility for automatically determining if a page is completely black and white and sending to a different printer.

Conceivably, if you knew that particular pages were only black and white, you could write some Javascript to selectively print a document to multiple pages based on what you believe the pages to contain.

          - Dov

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Dov Isaacs
Dov IsaacsCorrect answer
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August 6, 2019

No such facility exists within Acrobat. And within PDF, there is no official concept of a color versus black and white page.

Many digital printers that have different “click charges” for color versus black and white automatically determine if a page is color or not. And both Acrobat and Reader do attempt to avoid unexpected color charges with a feature for PostScript printers that causes R=G=B text, vector, and images to be rendered only with black (i.e., grayscale). But there is no facility for automatically determining if a page is completely black and white and sending to a different printer.

Conceivably, if you knew that particular pages were only black and white, you could write some Javascript to selectively print a document to multiple pages based on what you believe the pages to contain.

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
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