First time making pcb using photoresist...not sure if I am starting out right
Instead of selecting the layers you want printed from the "displayed layers" list of the editor and using the print tool to produce an image, use the CAM processor. Select the layers you want, and use PS_Inverted as the output "device", which will produce an inverted black and white postscript document.  

  

You can render the postscript file with Acrobat, PS View, InfranView and others. The same applications should allow you to send it directly to a printer as well.