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Suddenyl my printer won't print fine lines in an image on a MS word page. It used to, now it won't.

 

Changed cartridges, updated foirmware, updated / re-installed software / drivers.

 

How it should lookHow it should look

 

This is how it now prints...

How it now prints and misses fine linesHow it now prints and misses fine lines

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Pleasecselect option fine or high quality not draft or economy from printer prpoperties and try again.

 

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BH
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Hi Banhien

 

I've tried all the easy one's.

The only way to get the lines is to enter the printer settings>Paper/Quality>Advanced>Prin in Max DPI>Yes and only on this setting do the thin lines come out.

max dpi.JPG

It used to print them without all the special tweaking.

Issues with this are that it wastes far too much ink and takes 5 minutes per page even for a simple schematic as shown above.

 

Something has changed - and I changed nothing.

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