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Adobe PDF Print Quality Issues
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| Peter Olcott 2006-02-09, 7:04 pm |
| When I take my PDF to Kinko's to get it printed, the text comes out all fuzzy
and pixelated. When I print it out at home, it is razor sharp. What is making
the difference here? Both cases use the same PDF file, and both cases are using
Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
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| Ken Sharp 2006-02-10, 3:58 am |
| In article <aAQGf.79317$QW2.34978@dukeread08>, olcott@att.net says...
> When I take my PDF to Kinko's to get it printed, the text comes out all fuzzy
> and pixelated. When I print it out at home, it is razor sharp. What is making
> the difference here? Both cases use the same PDF file, and both cases are using
> Adobe Acrobat 7.0.
But different printers ? Is one a PostScript printer and the other a
non-PostScript printer ? Are they both non-PostScript ? Are the fonts
embedded in the PDF file ?
If the fonts aren't embedded then somewhere they will be substituted for
'something else', which may not be of as high quality.
If the printers aren't PostScript (and even if they are) then the file
may be being printed as an image. If the target resolution is wrong,
then the image may be scaled by the printer, or printer driver. This
will result in poor quality text. This sounds like its your problem to
me.
'Print as image' is a setting in the Acrobat print dialog.
There could be other reasons, but we'd need to know a lot more about the
printing process, particularly at the Kinko's end.
Ken
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| Peter Olcott 2006-02-10, 6:59 pm |
| It looks like it is a "Print as image" issue. Thanks
"Ken Sharp" <ken@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> In article <aAQGf.79317$QW2.34978@dukeread08>, olcott@att.net says...
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> But different printers ? Is one a PostScript printer and the other a
> non-PostScript printer ? Are they both non-PostScript ? Are the fonts
> embedded in the PDF file ?
>
> If the fonts aren't embedded then somewhere they will be substituted for
> 'something else', which may not be of as high quality.
>
> If the printers aren't PostScript (and even if they are) then the file
> may be being printed as an image. If the target resolution is wrong,
> then the image may be scaled by the printer, or printer driver. This
> will result in poor quality text. This sounds like its your problem to
> me.
>
> 'Print as image' is a setting in the Acrobat print dialog.
>
> There could be other reasons, but we'd need to know a lot more about the
> printing process, particularly at the Kinko's end.
>
>
> Ken
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