When printing a colour document using Preview, some of the text is blurry. There are no problems printing the same document from Adobe Acrobat. Below is a scan of the Preview printout. There is no such blurriness to the Adobe Acrobat printout.
This problem has been niggling me for a good few years, with many different documents. It's certainly not isolated to one singular printer, or version of Preview or OS X.
I'm just speculating here, but perhaps, within a "bounding box" defined by the coloured sticky note boxes, Preview is setting CMYK values for the text to be "true black" (75,68,67,90) and not 0,0,0,100.
Why does this happen, and how can I fix it?
Notes:
- the colour spaces in the original PDF are sRGB and gray.
- as per the comments, I have used Acrobat to convert the page to a 1200 DPI, CMYK-format TIFF file. Printing this with Preview, all of the text is blurry (because the printer is using more than just black ink), but printing from Adobe Illustrator is perfectly sharp.
- I expect that the problem is to do with colour-space conversions. But why Preview is printing some parts of the text as "true black" is beyond me. The fact that these regions are bounded by coloured parts of the document seems to stink of incompetent programming.
