What is this? 

When working from Photoshop, we recommend that you actually export to PDF, then print from Adobe Acrobat. 

Why we do it?

Photoshop files are very large. Saving it as a PDF will compress your images and preserve crisp text.

How often we do it?

Perform as needed

How we do it?

Step 1:

In the File menu, select

Save As

Format to Photoshop PDF

Step 2:

Set Adobe PDF Preset to

[High Quality Print]

Uncheck Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities

Step 3

Under Compression

Set Compatibility to Acrobat 9/10 (PDF 1.7+)

Set Options to Bicubic Downsampling to 300ppi for images above 450ppi

Set Compression to JPEG

Set Image Quality to Maximum

Press

Click Save PDF

Finally, see the Creating an Optimized PDF guide for final print output.