Hi, folks.



I just purchased a new brother laser printer (HL-3170CDW), upgrading from inkjet. I don't know if this is a quirk of the new printer or something software related.

We print curriculum for poetry workshops we run, and there's a total of about fifty different documents. Some of these are printing with nice bold, clear lines that are what I expected from a laser printer and others are printing much thinner - still readable, but obviously different from the other one when you look at them side by side.

I've checked every setting I can find for font and paragraph and the two documents look like they're set exactly the same. Calibri, 12 point, normal style. I've tried clearing and resetting the formatting, and nothing changes. When I bold lines, the results are strikingly different. I'm stumped.

Check what colour is applied to the font and also whether the printer is using draft mode for the documents concerned.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Color on both types of document - black or automatic (not sure how to tell which)

Printing on both types of document - normal (600 x 600 dpi)

Check under the Home tab. Put your insertion point in some text and drop-down the selection for color. It will indicate. It is definitely possible that the two are not the same for your printer.

To ensure they're the same font colour, use Ctrl-A, then choose Home|Font>Font Color>Automatic for two documents - one that's printing normally and one that isn't.

The draft print setting has nothing to do with the printer resolution; it's found under File|Options|Advanced>Print.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]