Laser printer prints screen instead of solid...
I'm not sure this is a ML issue, and this is a relatively new laser printer I have (Brother MFC 7360N), but when I check printed pieces closely -- I noticed all the blacks are NOT SOLID BLACK, BUT SCREENED, even though I double checked it to be 100% black, no other colors involved....
I tested it printing from several programs, like Adobe Illustrator, printing a PDF file or an Adobe InDesign document... Nothing is solid black, all print out as a very dark SCREEN.
Is there something I', missing here?..... Thanks !
The same thing just happened to me, but it's on a Brother HL-4150CDN. The printer has been working great for years, but today something that printed perfectly yesterday (i.e. smooth vector graphics from Adobe Illustrator, PDFs, etc.) now prints out as a bitmap. Fonts are smooth though.
I printed a test file from my Mac as well as a PC on my network and they both printed the same way. I reset the printer to factory defaults as well as power cycled it and nothing changed.
I'll be contacting Brother but I wanted to let you know that it may be something besides a Postscript issue.
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