Sounds like it might be a print quality setting. In Word XP you go to the File->Print menu, which pops up the print dialog. Then click the Options button in that dialog and one of the checkboxes will be "Draft Output". That's useful if you are in fact wanting to print out a quick draft, and it saves you a bit of ink too. On text you may not even notice the difference in draft mode but for images you almost certainly will notice the effect of Draft Output mode.
There's gotta be a similar option somewhere in Word for OS X. I'm just not sure where, my iBook is not with me here at work right now. --- Rex Baldazo --- Senior Editor --- Builder.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Ellis Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:23 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: MacGroup: Printer Problem I am new to the world of OS X. My printer is a Lexmark Z52, which I also used with my former computer (a Gateway PC). I frequently prepared a Word document that has a line to a bitmap file. When I print, the copy is not as clear and sharp as I would get before. What is most curious is that if I use the same bitmap in ax Excel file, the image is a sharp as it was before. I created the bitmap file with Finale (music notation software), printed out the page (which was sharp), then scanned that into a bitmap file (which when printed is also sharp). Since the same printer is being used for all of these applications, it would seem to be something within Word. Does anyone have any thoughts on the problem? Steve | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. This | list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
