Timeline for Why is Preview printing blurry text when there is colour in a document?
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| S Sep 24, 2015 at 13:31 | history | bounty ended | CommunityBot | ||
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| Sep 18, 2015 at 9:01 | answer | added | Ashley | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 12:19 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/askdifferent/status/644123430959349760 | ||
| Sep 16, 2015 at 11:42 | comment | added | Moriarty | Here is the test document I used. | |
| S Sep 16, 2015 at 11:36 | history | bounty started | Moriarty | ||
| S Sep 16, 2015 at 11:36 | history | notice added | Moriarty | Draw attention | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 12:45 | history | edited | Moriarty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2015 at 12:20 | comment | added | Moriarty | @MarekBettman I converted the page to a 1200 DPI, CMYK-format TIFF file. Checking the colours with the Digital Color Meter app, the on-screen RGB colours show that the black font is (0,0,0,100) in CMYK. Printing this with Preview, all of the text is very blurry, but printing from Adobe Illustrator is perfectly sharp. My guess is that Preview is converting to RGB before printing (how can I turn this off?), but the "boundary box" effect you see remains unexplained as well. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 8:41 | comment | added | Moriarty | @MarekBettman Yep, a Ricoh MP C3502 and a C3501 (I no longer have access to the former). Though they probably run on pretty much the same drivers. But the problem occurs with Preview but not with Adobe Reader, so Occam's Razor says that my computer is at fault. | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 8:38 | comment | added | Marek Bettman | Does it happen on multiple printers? Have you tried to make a image (screenshot f.ex.) of the pdf and print that maybe? | |
| Sep 14, 2015 at 8:34 | history | asked | Moriarty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |