Recent content by smeelah

Thank you. That's very helpful. I have collected a bunch of toner for the 6L with a high iron content (higher than micr that I have tried). However, the drums all finally stopped working, having caused all sorts of problems along the way;) Anyway, I haven't had any luck finding someone that...

Thanks for your response. So, do you think this can cause the drastic change in contrast?

Hi, My recent prints from my HP 6L are super high contrast, like a highly posterized print. Typically this printer will put out smooth photo quality images but I had recently been doing some troubleshooting (it prints all-black pages when I try to print directly from photoshop and my printer...

I hadn't realized that toner cartridge drums deteriorated or expired. I'm wondering if the toner leaking might be due to the drum's age, which could be similar for all the cartridges.

I am trying to keep my 6L printing until I can replace it. However, I am having a recurring issue that seems like a broken cartridge but it's happened with several cartridges. They are all vintage Staples brand cartridges in the green box, all bought from different sources. There is an excess...

I picked up an HP 2100. Amazing prints on a macro level. Lots of output options. Unfortunately, I need a printer that will not only print sharp macro graphics but also uses toner with a high iron oxide level. Surprisingly my HP MFP M28w has iron levels (or some other metal oxide?) equal or...

Interesting! I am beginning to understand that it's not so much about capability but what the manufacturer choses to include...based on the main category of consumers. For instance, I tried to find an inkjet that ticked all my boxes but some of the attributes were only on 'home business'...

Just to update... I think it must have been a corrupted file. I learned a bit about embedding fonts and tried recreating the file in Illustrator but the quality was not as good as with my previous doc. So, I deleted the newest files, went back to the original photoshop file, went through all the...

I will try that, thank you!

Thank you for your responses! It printed fine on plain paper on my home laser printer. I didn't know about embedding fonts - thank you! It seems to be cutting off part of an image as well ( the top of the leaves looks cropped). This is all done on photoshop (just because that's the program...

Hi! I have a PDF that I am having printed onto heavy card stock at a local printer. They are doing me a favour by letting me use the heavy cardstock so I am trying to troubleshoot this latest issue myself. They were printing on a newly serviced Ricoh(?)..and manually inserting the cardstock. I...

This is amazing information. Thank you. Is it possible to add a dithering algorithm to photoshop or do I need to work the with the options available?

Hi Peter, I'm wondering if you ever got a good print with the 1018? thanks!

I was hoping it was a setting since I am getting that result on two different printers. The 6L and 1200 laserjets printed smooth with regular size images and the 1018 and M28w print with the dots and lines showing. I tried pdfs with photoshop (cs5), preview and acrobat reader. Very similar...

Yes, I would typically leave the document print size at 8.5" x 11" etc. but increase the resolution. This time I kept the dpi of the full document to 300 with the page size at 25.5" x 33" but printed 'to fit' a 8.5" x 11". The print resolution showed as 943 ppi. I also tried 600 dpi with the...