[SOLVED] Printed text unreadable

[nbartolo7]

My printed docs have recently become unreadable. It didn't use to be like this. Actually, not even sure it's the printer's fault, because the actual email text seems more transparent and greyish than it is black. It keeps the sender information deep black as you can all see, but the rest of the text is light greyish. As a result, when I print it, which I usually when it's articles, the text is barely visible. I imagine the printer just prints what it sees on screen. Any way I can put the main text back into deep black? Or perhaps, I can force the printer to not recognize different shades of grey and it will print pure black only? No clue. Any help appreciated.

 

[Aeacus]

Any way I can put the main text back into deep black?

Copy/paste the grey text of an e-mail into any word editing software (e.g Word or Wordpad), change the font color to black, save the file and print from the file instead. This fixes the color issue.

Notepad doesn't have text coloring tools, and should put all the text automatically into default black. Afterwards you can save the file and print from Notepad directly. Using notepad skips the step of you manually changing the text color.

 

[nbartolo7]

Copy/paste the grey text of an e-mail into any word editing software (e.g Word or Wordpad), change the font color to black, save the file and print from the file instead. This fixes the color issue.

Notepad doesn't have text coloring tools, and should put all the text automatically into default black. Afterwards you can save the file and print from Notepad directly. Using notepad skips the step of you manually changing the text color.

Cool, thanks it worked. Do we know why it's doing that though? It didn't used to be like this. As far as I can recall at least.

 

[Aeacus]

Do we know why it's doing that though?

My guess, sender's attempt (could be involuntary as well) to avoid unlawful replication/printing.

E.g if i were to just copy/paste received text via e-mail and then send it forward via e-mail, letters appear in dark blue color, instead of black (one of the quirks of Gmail).