Photoshop vector printing

[Estuardo26284182n5or]

Good morning every body, at the moment of printing an art from Photoshop, if you have a vectors as SmartObjects and also raster images, does Photoshop send vectors as vectors and raster as raster? I knew that Illustrator does something similar, or just resterizes everything before? 

[Semaphoric]

What is the source of the vector Smart Objects? And is the program that created them on the same computer as Photoshop?

[Estuardo26284182n5or]

Yes it should be in the same computer, normally they should come from illustrator or as en eps or svg

[NB, colourmanagement]

@Estuardo26284182n5or Everything gets rasterised on the way to the printer unless it has a RIP, in that case, the RIP does the rasterising since only a raster can be printed. The advantage of vectors is that this in RIP rasterisation can be superior. 

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[Estuardo26284182n5or]

So at the end, In my workplace they basically forbid us to use photoshop , "because Illustrator print vectors better than Photoshop..." which I think besides specific cases, what matters is having the artwork set for the right size, since everything goes raster at the end, specially if your artwork has both raster images and vectors as Smart Object embedded.

[c.pfaffenbichler]

In Photoshop Vector Smart Object instances are pixel content and will not output as vectors – period. 

[c.pfaffenbichler]

How complex is the vector content?

Have you tried pasting it as Layers? Depending on the used features Shape and Type Layers might be produced. 

[william_7717]

it depends on the settings you have choosen...ususally everything is rasterized so if you want to maintain the vector quality you may need to optimize the settings...i do not know about it much but yeah i think thats the case