Samsung CLP prints PDF too dark/thick

[fsa]

Apologies if this is the wrong subforum.

I have a CLP-620 and lately I've had to do a lot of printing of PDFs of published research papers. I know this isn't very green, but I find it really hard to study them from the screen and need a hard copy. (Although I do shrink them to fit two to a page, double sided).

I noticed that the font on some of the printouts is very thick, making them difficult to read and using up a lot of toner. On the printer properties, I have set it to draft and turned off clear text.

Is there anything else I can do to have them print more clearly and use less toner? Or is it just down to the original PDF and how the document was scanned? If so, anything I can tune on Adobe Acrobat?

 

[The Paladin]

my first reaction to that some pages are "font thick" and " hard to read" even though your setting is to draft printing, is goto the page of the document your printing, (and I have seen this on scanned manuals/historical documents) is the page in the PDF clear or does in fact the fonts in that page are thick and unreadable ?

 

[fsa]

Thanks for your reply, Paladin.

The font in the affected printouts' PDF documents is slightly thicker than the ones which print okay, but still clear and readable. If this is the cause, is there any way of easily editing the font on the PDF?

 

[The Paladin]

Thanks for your reply, Paladin.

The font in the affected printouts' PDF documents is slightly thicker than the ones which print okay, but still clear and readable. If this is the cause, is there any way of easily editing the font on the PDF?

only if you have pdf editor software and would have to convert to word and edit it