Adobe Acrobat print settings changed after Windows 11 update

[Conrad241567045mok]

I work as a graphic designer and part of my job requires me to do a lot of high quality printing such as greeitng cards, birth announcements, wedding invitations, etc. I have always done my printing with Adobe PDF'sand everything was perfect until early this week. I restarted and updated my computer and the quality setitngs in the printer properties changed. There is no way I can get it back to printing the way it used to. The photo just appears to be washed out and grainy. 😞 Can someone tell me what the best way is to print high quality photos either out of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Indesign?

Thank you.

[Mike Witherell]

Can you show InDesign's print dialog box settings and also the printer models dialog box settings?

[Conrad241567045mok]

Here is the Indesign print dialog box settings but I'm not sure what you mean by the printer models dialog box settings. Could you explain?

[Conrad241567045mok]

and this is the Acrobat print dialog box with the quality setting that has become messed up.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

and this is the Acrobat print dialog box with the quality setting that has become messed up.

By @Conrad241567045mok

Have you tried clicking Advanced and setting options there? 

Update to Win11 might not preserved all your settings correctly - so you'll need to set them up again. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

The screen shot of the Acrobat print dialog is not actually Acrobat's. Acrobat is just linking to the print driver's settings. Check to see if your print driver was updated along with Windows 11.

[Mike Witherell]

You are printing to a certain model printer. Therefore you begin in InDesign (or better Acrobat Pro) print dialog box, but there is also the physical printer model print dialog box. Click on Setup...

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Mike Witherell

I'm pretty sure OP is exporting PDF and then printing from Acrobat. 

Sorry, you might be right? 

[Mike Witherell]

Or I might be wrong!

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Conrad241567045mok

Do you print directly to your printer - or export PDF and then print from Acrobat?

[Conrad241567045mok]

I export PDF and then print from Acrobat. I tried printing through Indesign but the colors don't print true for me and the quality is poor. I was always very pleased with how my PDF's printed  but then this week it went bad when I updated my computer. I think it installed a new version of Windows 11. The quality settings in Acrobat print properties used to simply have a tab to choose 600 or 1200 dpi but now it has all those wierd settings like on the snippet I shared. I tried a handful of them but none gave a satisfactory print. I am open to printing from Indesign but didn't have a lot of luck figuring out those settings either. 

Is it helpful for you to know I am printing to a Canon imagePRESS Lite C265 printer?

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Conrad241567045mok

You most likely need to tweak the settings - and then save as your own profile.

[Conrad241567045mok]

Ok. I guess I'll just have to keep trying.