General ⇒ Mismatch in Document Quality on Screen and on Paper

[offroad]

Hi all

Has any of you had this problem?

Everything looks great on the screen (all vectorized) but when printed out it goes downhill. I noticed a few lines of a page look OK but the others are low quality. I suspected it was the hardware (printer) but it was not. I added these two packages and it only made everything worse:

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%\usepackage[cmyk]{xcolor}
%\usepackage{bera}

Any help is appreciated very much.


Offroad

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I suspected it was the hardware (printer) but it was not.

Why do you think this? Try another printer to verify if the result shows the same quality. You coud attach a sample PDF file here.

Stefan

[shadgrind]

The choice of fonts can make a big difference in printed output. Generally serif fonts look better for printing, while sans serif fonts look better on a screen.

Try putting this in your preamble and see if it makes a difference (don't load the bera package if you do this):

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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}

[offroad]

I suspected it was the hardware (printer) but it was not.

Why do you think this? Try another printer to verify if the result shows the same quality. You coud attach a sample PDF file here.

Stefan

Because I printed a report from MS Word and it was great quality.

I'm uploading a pdf file so you can print and see, if possible.

Very much appreciated

Offroad

[offroad]

I added the 'palatino' packagge and everything SEEMS a little better now. I like the LaTeX default font better, you know!
I'll print one page tomorrow and compare.

Many thanks