This section includes general information about printing images.
Color management is not enabled by default. If you want to use color management while working on or printing a document, you must first set up color management for your system. For more information, see Color management.
In Corel Painter, you can interleave shapes with layers in the Layers panel, which can affect how your document is printed. Shapes are vector objects, as opposed to pixel-based objects, which makes them resolution-independent. On a PostScript printer, shapes are usually turned into PostScript paths and are printed at the full printer resolution.
Any object in a lower position in the Layers list "touched" by a rasterized shape must also be rasterized to preserve the effect. For example, if you have a shape with transparency on top of a number of other shapes, all shapes below it must be rasterized to preserve the transparency on the canvas even if the overlap area is small. Similarly, if part of an image from a layer is placed over a shape, the shape must be rasterized to be correctly printed.
Instead of flattening a composite image by dropping each layer to the canvas, you can clone the file to produce a flattened image, which you can then print. This method lets you preserve the layers in the saved RIFF file in case you want to change them later. For more information, see Cloning images.
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