Weird print issue

[GVP]

Greetings! For internal use, we quite often print to our black & white laser rather than the color printer. Using Corel X5, it's coming out weird. For example a black rectangle with white text over, prints out as a grey dithered box with black text? Printing the same thing from another program prints correctly. Any ideas or suggestions? I assume it is a setting in Corel, but what?

 

[2B]

do you have multiple pages within that file?
depending on your printer settings, it could be reading/combining multiple pages when you try to print

have you switched your view to wireframe to see if there are any hidden layers

 

[GVP]

do you have multiple pages within that file?
depending on your printer settings, it could be reading/combining multiple pages when you try to print

have you switched your view to wireframe to see if there are any hidden layers

Thanks - but no, definitely not that. Even creating a simple test page produces the weirdness. If I have two identical lines of type, set one to black (C0,M0,Y0,K100) and the other to white (C0,M0,Y0,L0) they both print black!

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

does it look correct in the print preview?

 

[GVP]

does it look correct in the print preview?

Yes, looks correct on screen. I'm going to see if there's a printer driver update to try, although it printed ok from a different program

 

[WhiskeyDreamer]

That's weird. Because if the preview is correct, I would think it's in the printer settings. Have you double checked them all?

Not that I think this would apply, but what version do you have? I know the Student version doesn't allow printing in color. Maybe there's something like that going on. Can you save it to a PDF and have it print fine?

OR, a better question would be, were you able to print this same file correctly before today?

 

[iPrintStuff]

Have you tried flattening the PDF? Sometimes we get problems on our digital machines that’s sorted with flattening the PDF, usually something to do with drop shadows/transparency. That or we tick the “composite overlay” button. Not sure if you have one of those! Would depend on softwarez

 

[GVP]

I'm convinced it's a weirdness between the printer and X5. The same file printed via X3 comes out fine, as well as via Illustrator.

Anyhow, after a bit of tinkering I solved the issue using the Canon XPS driver instead of the regular Canon one - just in case anyone else has the same problem.