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gajad76921173
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May 11, 2018
Question

Gray background when I print out previously scanned PDF file through Adobe Acrobat Reader

  • May 11, 2018
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Hi

I have two new Brother MFC - L2700DW printers and both has same problem.

When I print out previously scanned PDF file through Adobe Acrobat Rider ,page come out gray with white frame around .

All the other file formats are normal-white,only scanned one are gray.

Can you help me out please?

Thank you

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    destijl78
    Participant
    February 18, 2024

    I had this trouble with scanned sheet music today--not a wholly gray background but printing gray noise around both lyrics/text and staff/notes.

    What worked for me:

    From Print dialog box, click [Properties] for my Brother L2340D.

    On the Basic tab, select [Manual] next to Print settings (vs. Graphics or Text).

    Then click [Manual Settings] button.

    Select [Use System Halftone] radio button. Click [OK] to confirm and print.

    Might have gotten better results with different initial scan settings, but everything looked good on screen. The scan was probably capturing areas that it encoded as extremely light gray; the display wasn't trying to render those details but the printer halftone settings were trying to do so.

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      Kevin35959730vtmc
      Participant
      March 22, 2024

      Worked for me too.  Thanks.

       

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      David Ngo 1234
      Participant
      June 3, 2023

      Hi there,

      Not sure if the problem is fixed, but I found the solution. It's about the PS driver of Brother printer.

      When I installed the full software L2750DW I seleted the custome option and then select the PS driver as well as the full sotfware. It works for me.

       

      Regards,

      David

      Meenakshi Negi
      Community Manager
      Meenakshi NegiCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      May 25, 2018

      Hi Gajad,

      Sorry for the delay in response.

      As you get the gray background when printing PDF, is it an issue only with the Scanned PDF's?

      Please make sure that scanned PDF has the white background.

      As you are printing the scanned file, scanned PDF is actually an image of the page.

      Try once to check the accessibility option under Preferences.

      Open the PDF in Reader and go to Edit  > Preferences  > Accessibility > Document Color options.

      Check the option selected there. Try toggling the options and check if that makes any difference.

      If possible, can you share a PDF file with us, so we can try to replicate the issue at our end?

      You may refer the steps mentioned here to share the file.

      Let u know if you have any question or need any help.

      Regards,

      Meenakshi

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      tonyo64906510
      Participant
      October 22, 2018

      I'm also having this problem with a L-2703DW. I published a book of music tunes, 86 pages in all. Some months ago I re-did the book as nearly every page was printing with a grey background when I printed on my Brother printer. When I printed on my Canon MX926 inkjet printer everything was fine. Anyway I printed up some more books today on the Brother printer, using my newly re-created PDFs and every one of them come out fine except Page 52, so I've re-done that and now that's ok. I'm using a Music notation software programme, exporting my finished transcription as a PNG, cropping in Photos, then copy and paste into Open Office and save as a PDF. I have produced 7 books of music in PDF format and the vast majority of docs  are fine. I'd previously used a cheap Samsung B&W laser printer without any issues and used the L-2703DW without issue until earlier this year when all of a sudden it printed PDFs with a grey background. I contacted Brother's help desk and was told ,if I understood him, that my computer(iMac) had "taken a picture" of the docs and this was why they were printing in grey, but all my other docs were fine. As I have fairly basic computer skills I was not in a position to follow this up but it seems to me like there's some sort of issue with some PDF docs and the Brother L-2700 series of printer. I only use genuine Brother drums and toner. To be fair to Brother the printer is an excellent machine and this is the only issue I've had with it. I've read some other articles on this and tried all the preference option suggestions but none work.

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      William5C06
      Participant
      January 23, 2021

      I too was having this problem with scanned PDFs printing gray backgrounds on my Brother MFC-L3770CDW.  I found a solution from within Adobe Acrobat DC:  Choose the "Edit" menu, select "Preferences" and under "Accessibility" I checked the box for "Replace Document Colors."  I then selected the radio button for "Custom Color" and went with Page Background set to white and Document Text set to black.  This worked like a charm to solve this annoying problem!

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