Help! Laserjet 4500

Skyfire

Skyfire

Skyfire

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Hi,

I used to have a mono 300dpi HP Laserjet printer, it was great until it died. All my documents used to be printed from Microsoft Word using Arial at 4 pts due to the large amount of data. So I purchased a Laserjet 4500, it works fine in colour and text around 10 points, but when I try to print my documents at 4pt, they all look like they are in bold and not very readable :confused:

I tried messing with the printer driver - REt on/off, mono only etc. Then moved to the printer and found PCL/PS or Auto (default), so I have left it on auto. In the font section, it is set to internal, font 0, pitch 10pts and character set PC-8, there are lots of others e.g.

DESKTOP: DeskTop
ISO4: ISO 4 English (UK)
ISO6: ISO 6 ASCII
ISO11: ISO 11 Swedish for Names
ISO15: ISO 15 Italian
ISO17: ISO 17 Spanish
ISO21: ISO 21 German
ISO60: ISO 60 Norwegian V1
ISO69: ISO 69 French
ISOL1: ISO 8859/1 Latin 1
ISOL2: ISO 8859/2 Latin 2
ISOL5: ISO 8859/5 Latin 5
LEGAL: Legal
MATH8: Math-8
MSPUBL: Microsoft Publishing
PC8: PC-8 (Code Page 437)
PC8DN: PC-8 Danish/Norwegian
PC850: PC-850 Multilingual
PC852: PC-852 Latin 2
PC8TK: PC-Turkish
PIFONT: Pi Font
PSMATH: PS Math
PSTEXT: PS Text
ROMAN8: Roman-8
VNINTL: Ventura International
VNMATH: Ventura Math
VNUS: Ventura US
WIN30: Windows 3.0 Latin 1
WINL1: Windows 3.1 Latin 1
WINL2: Windows 3.1 Latin 2
WINL5: Windows 3.1 Latin 5

What am I doing wrong as this printer is rated at 600 dpi? Am I using the wrong setting? Also when printing PDFs, the very small fonts around 4pts do not print sharply. Please help :confused:
 
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Skyfire said:
Hi,

I used to have a mono 300dpi HP Laserjet printer, it was great until it died. All my documents used to be printed from Microsoft Word using Arial at 4 pts due to the large amount of data. So I purchased a Laserjet 4500, it works fine in colour and text around 10 points, but when I try to print my documents at 4pt, they all look like they are in bold and not very readable :confused:

I tried messing with the printer driver - REt on/off, mono only etc. Then moved to the printer and found PCL/PS or Auto (default), so I have left it on auto. In the font section, it is set to internal, font 0, pitch 10pts and character set PC-8, there are lots of others e.g.

DESKTOP: DeskTop
ISO4: ISO 4 English (UK)
ISO6: ISO 6 ASCII
ISO11: ISO 11 Swedish for Names
ISO15: ISO 15 Italian
ISO17: ISO 17 Spanish
ISO21: ISO 21 German
ISO60: ISO 60 Norwegian V1
ISO69: ISO 69 French
ISOL1: ISO 8859/1 Latin 1
ISOL2: ISO 8859/2 Latin 2
ISOL5: ISO 8859/5 Latin 5
LEGAL: Legal
MATH8: Math-8
MSPUBL: Microsoft Publishing
PC8: PC-8 (Code Page 437)
PC8DN: PC-8 Danish/Norwegian
PC850: PC-850 Multilingual
PC852: PC-852 Latin 2
PC8TK: PC-Turkish
PIFONT: Pi Font
PSMATH: PS Math
PSTEXT: PS Text
ROMAN8: Roman-8
VNINTL: Ventura International
VNMATH: Ventura Math
VNUS: Ventura US
WIN30: Windows 3.0 Latin 1
WINL1: Windows 3.1 Latin 1
WINL2: Windows 3.1 Latin 2
WINL5: Windows 3.1 Latin 5

What am I doing wrong as this printer is rated at 600 dpi? Am I using the wrong setting? Also when printing PDFs, the very small fonts around 4pts do not print sharply. Please help :confused:
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Ok, got it sorted, it was the REt performing some sort of antialising and it reset after every page print to the default enabled position everytime I tried to print a page from my document which is why I did not pick it up earlier. So I disabled it from the main printer panel :)
 
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