Try this:
Open the document using TextEdit (assuming you are running Panther?)
then print using mid to high quality and see if it improves.
Oddly enough you might find that some application/hardware combinations
do not print as well as the freebie Apple ones do (for example, Preview
prints PhotoShop files on inkjets better than PhotoShop does for the
same file).
AppleWorks may print your document better than Word does, if you have
AppleWorks.
What I am thinking though is that the image that is being printed is
the low resolution screen image (a placeholder that is generated to be
viewed on the screen with the better one being sent to the printer).
This may be fixed by checking the preference (configuration) settings
to see if there is an option for this.
Jerry
On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:55 PM, Stephen Ellis wrote:
> Thanks, Rex.
>
> I wish it were that simple. I sholud have mentioned that I have tried
> different print resolutions, from 300 DPI X 600 DPI up to 1200 DPI
> Highest quality. There is a slight improvement at the highest levels,
> but still not as good as I have in the other programs I've used
> (Finale and whatever the bitmap reader is.
>
> Steve
>
> On Nov 18, 2003, at 1:46 PM, Rex Baldazo wrote:
>
>> 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:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] 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
>>
>>
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