Hi Bill, It can vary from printer to printer, but to give you the example of my printer, if from Preview I select the menu option File > Print… the dialog that appears is the Print Dialog. To set the output quality to high one would proceed as follows:
1) If the dialog is small, press the down arrow near the printer's name to make the dialog larger and show all the options. 2) About half way down the dialog is a drop down sitting on a horizontal line. Select "Print Settings" in this drop down. 3) A Resolution drop down now becomes visible. Select the highest number of dots-per-inch (dpi) available. Mine for instance has 1200 dpi. The above steps can be different in minor details for different brands of printers, but you may be able to get the general idea from this and find the equivalent setting in your printer. Cheers, Carlo Sent from my iPad On 01/07/2011, at 18:40, Bill Parker <re...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > > Its very poor quality text. Its the real text but quite ragged and hard to > read. I have not changed the printer and as I said, MS Word (for example) > prints fine, as do others. I have access to another printer via Airport > (Epson) and that is fine with PDFs. > > What is OSX print dialog and how do I check that? > Bill > > On 01/07/2011, at 6:18 PM, cm wrote: > >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> I'm still not entirely clear. Is it unreadable gobbledegook or are the >> letters correct but badly printed. When I say you could have the printer set >> to draft quality, that is a per document decision that you can make in the >> print dialog. MS Word, for instance, may be using its own print dialog and >> setting the printer to high quality, but when you use the OS X print dialog, >> you may have draft mode selected. >> >> Cheers, >> Carlo >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> On 01/07/2011, at 17:57, Bill Parker <re...@westnet.com.au> wrote: >> >>> >>> Carlo The text is mostly unreadable, but NOT for MS Word and several other >>> softwares. So I think it is not the printer. >>> Bill >>> On 01/07/2011, at 5:49 PM, cm wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hi Bill, >>>> >>>> Not sure I can help but what do you mean by poor quality? Is it that the >>>> text badly laid-out or is it that he individual letters are rough? >>>> >>>> Could it be that you have your printer set to draft quality? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Carlo >>>> >>>> On 2011-07-01, at 17:08, Bill Parker wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I wonder if I have some settings wrong? Whether using Adobe Acrobat 8 >>>>> pro or Preview, I cannot print PDf text at anything like decent quality. >>>>> The printer is a Canon MX310. Done a few miles but all other softwares >>>>> print fine. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Bill >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
