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kimmydesign
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November 10, 2021
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Printing to Brother MFC-L3770CDW from any Adobe Application results in bitmapped prints

  • November 10, 2021
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Hi there, I've been trying to print to my new Brother laser printer for months and can't figure out how to get the prints from any Adobe application to not look like total garbage. I can set up the same design from Microsoft Word and it prints beautifully. I have been in contact with Brother and installed the Postscript driver, but nothing has changed and they say it's an issue with Adobe. 

 

I tried in grayscale with 100% black, I tried in CMYK with 100% black. I've tried Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop. I've turned off Print as Bitmap. Nothing works. 

 

Please help!

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Brad @ Roaring Mouse
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November 10, 2021

What you are seeing is not "bitmapping", it's a halftone screen.

I'm not familiar specifically with your printer, but most these days that aren't Postscript are assuning RGB data coming in (despite the fact they are print with CMYK toners)

So, if you are working with CMYK files your color management is converting your 100K to a different value based on your Colour Settings, in your case "lighter" than 100K... hence a bit of white dots in your black.

A few things you can try:

In the Preferences for Illustrator and InDesign there is a setting for Appearance of Blacks: under Printing/Export, select Rich Black and see if that changes anything.

Better: If you are print directly from the apps, e.g Illustrator, in the Print dialog under Color Management, switch Color Handling to "Let Postscript Printer determine colours". This turns off the color conversion because it assumes the printer itself is calibrated, plus it allows you also to check "Preserve CMYK numbers".

Even better: make PDF the files and print from Acrobat, which may give you better control and consistency.

fyi: The reason it's not happening with Word, is because it's an RGB-based product, so your printer is seeing 0R0G0B and using solid Black to print.

kimmydesign
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November 10, 2021

Hi Brad, thanks for the quick reply!

 

Printing from Acrobat (exported) and redesigning in InDesign seemed to work fine.

 

In Illustrator:

 

- Under Color Handling in the Print preferences, it won't let me choose "Let Postscript Printer determine colors".

 

- My Appearance of Black is already set to 'Output All Blacks as Rich Black."

 

- I tried converting my document to RGB in Illustrator but that didn't seem to help either. So what is it about the print options in Acrobat and InDesign that make the print great, and in Ai be so lousy!?

 

 

Brad @ Roaring Mouse
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November 10, 2021

"it won't let me choose "Let Postscript Printer determine colors"."

 

It probably only appears as an option if you are using the Postscript driver for your printer.