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I am using Illustrator 2021. Pictures with 0.25pt lines appear fine on screen, but will appear very thick and dark when printed. Tried several different printers and all print out too thick/dark. If save as PDF, again look fine on screen but print out too thick/dark. This did not happen with older versions of Illustrator. Please help!
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With the PDF, check if Enhance Thin Lines is checked in Acrobat Preferences. I believe that it is on by default.
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Thank you! Checking off Enhance Thin Lines solve this problem with printing PDF. However, lines are still thick when directly printing from Illustrator. Any way to solve that?
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Is the AI file saved with the default PDF enabled? Maybe the printer is reading that portion of the file instead of the AI.
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If I save the AI file with "create PDF compatible file" checked OFF, it still prints thick. Is there another place to check off the "default PDF enabled"? Thanks!