Since using my Brother DCP-L2627DWE printer on macOS 15.5 Sequoia, I can no longer print vectors correctly from Adobe apps (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).The “Print as Bitmap” option is always forced, both with my Brother printer (AirPrint) and my Canon printer (AirPrint as well).Result: text and vector lines are rasterized and print jagged.Unchecking “Print as Bitmap” has no effect — it resets or is ignored.Background:Brother confirmed that on macOS 15+, Apple no longer allows Brother-specific drivers, only AirPrint is supported.AirPrint does not support PostScript or PPD, so Adobe apps cannot send correct vector print jobs.Tried:Reinstalling Adobe appsReinstalling printer drivers (AirPrint)Resetting settings and preferencesPPD is not selectableSaving PDF → printing from Preview works, but is cumbersome Question for Adobe community:Is this a known limitation when using AirPrint on macOS 15+?Are there any recommended workarounds to print vector output directly from Adobe apps with AirPrint printers?Does CUPS-PDF or Ghostscript reliably solve this?Is Adobe planning better support to bypass bitmap printing for AirPrint devices?System info:macOS 15.5 SequoiaBrother DCP-L2627DWE (AirPrint-only)Canon iX6800 (AirPrint)Adobe Creative Cloud (latest Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

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No vector print possible on macOS 15.5 (AirPrint only) — workaround for InDesign?

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June 24, 2025
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Since using my Brother DCP-L2627DWE printer on macOS 15.5 Sequoia, I can no longer print vectors correctly from Adobe apps (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop).
The “Print as Bitmap” option is always forced, both with my Brother printer (AirPrint) and my Canon printer (AirPrint as well).
Result: text and vector lines are rasterized and print jagged.
Unchecking “Print as Bitmap” has no effect — it resets or is ignored.

Background:
Brother confirmed that on macOS 15+, Apple no longer allows Brother-specific drivers, only AirPrint is supported.
AirPrint does not support PostScript or PPD, so Adobe apps cannot send correct vector print jobs.

Tried:

Reinstalling Adobe apps
Reinstalling printer drivers (AirPrint)
Resetting settings and preferences
PPD is not selectable
Saving PDF → printing from Preview works, but is cumbersome

Question for Adobe community:

Is this a known limitation when using AirPrint on macOS 15+?
Are there any recommended workarounds to print vector output directly from Adobe apps with AirPrint printers?
Does CUPS-PDF or Ghostscript reliably solve this?
Is Adobe planning better support to bypass bitmap printing for AirPrint devices?

System info:

macOS 15.5 Sequoia
Brother DCP-L2627DWE (AirPrint-only)
Canon iX6800 (AirPrint)
Adobe Creative Cloud (latest Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @md94950580,

Thanks for sharing all the details and your thorough testing across different setups.

I'm currently checking this behavior with the product team to understand whether it's a known limitation with AirPrint on macOS 15.5 or if further investigation is needed. I'll keep you posted here as soon as I have an update.

Thanks again for your patience and for helping us look into this.

Abhishek

md94950580Author

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Dear @Abhishek Rao,

Thank you so much for giving this your prompt attention. I also tested with my studio colleque this morning; she experiences the same issues. We do use the same printer.

Looking forward to getting an update from you.
Kind Regards, Marjolein

md94950580

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Export as PDF.
Print the PDF from Acrobat.

md94950580Author

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Thanks @Willi Adelberger it is between the options I tried, Definately an option, it is just not 100% good if you want special settings (colour separations, PPD, imposition etcetra). Of course that also goes for the above solution, with the Generic Postscript Driver you might also loose Brother-specific settings.

But thanks!, much appreciated!

md94950580

md94950580Author

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*definitely

md94950580

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

If the AirPrint driver has no options to access the PS abiliies of your printer, you are out of luck. Adobe can't change that, that's an OS thing with the AirPrint Driver, and Brother has no interest in making drivers that work.

You could try add anoher instance of you printer and assign the Generic Postscript Driver to it. You will lose device specific device settings, of course.

md94950580Author

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Hi Brad,

I tried it this morning, and it alll works, but when I send the file to the printer the file is processed in the print centre, but the printer itself does not respond.
I used this info to add to the case I built using ChatGPT to help me along the way and the repsons was:

The printer does not understand PostScript, and you’ve sent it a raw PostScript print job.

Your Brother DCP-L2627DWE is an AirPrint-only / GDI-class printer — it does not have PostScript language support, so when it receives a PostScript job (from the Generic driver), it just... does nothing.

So I looked it up and ineed this printer does not support PS. So unfortunately this great workaround, does work, but not for my printer.

I guess I need to stick with exproting to PDF first.

md94950580

Brad @ Roaring Mouse

Community Expert

Ack. My Bad.. When I had looked at the specifications on the Brother site for your model it listed BR-Script Postscript Emulation, but now that I look at it again, the Specs page was for an entire Lxxxx family, but not ALL models had BR-Script, so yeah, your EXACT model did not have it. Boo!

In reality, your best option is to create PDFs and print those despite the added steps in your workflow.

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