Printing B+W / Colour seperate - Anyone know howto?

[Chocki]

I have got a 290 od page manual to print which contains mostly black text with the odd colour graphic etc.

Trying to print this out on a canon photo printer is not really a viable option as the costs of ink are just too high. (PIXIMA 8500)

I also have a HP laserjet 6P. This is fantastic for printing Black on White and I'm still on the original cartridge after over 7 years and I have put boxes nevermind reams of paper through this printer!.

What I would like to be able to do is print all the text on the laser printer with spaces where the colour graphics etc go, then load the printed pages into the canon and print the colour graphics.

Obviously this would most likely require calibrating to get the positioning correct.

Does anyone know of any software (preferably free) which would allow me to carry out two pass printing like this.

Thanks.

Suggestions for alternative ways also appreciated.

 

[Avalon]

If it's that important to have colour pic's you could edit the pdf (I don't know what free tools are available to do this) to remove the images while leaving the text, save a copy and print it on the HP, then re-open a fresh copy and do the same but leave the images and print to the cannon. It's a faff about but it's your call.

BTW your 6p is a personal/small office laser printer with an average toner life of 5-6k pages if you only print text so you will get a fair few prints out of it!

 

[Chocki]

Cheers Avalon.

Looking like it's going to have to be the hard way

I'm supprised that there is nothing available to do this that I can easily find.
Gonna keep searching a bit more first.

 

[whitecrook]

Possibly in Acrobat you could separate the colours, (you know for printing on a CYMK press) and print only the black plate on the laser and the coloured plates on the inkjet.

edit that's the full blown acrobat, not the 'reader'

 

[Hawk Tuah]

I'd print the whole thing in B&W.

Then I'd go through it and the pages that have colour images I'd reprint the whole page in colour.

You said there's only a few right.