On 11/08/2014 03:22 AM, Paul Newall wrote:
Does your streaky print look as if it is due to too much ink, which
then gets smeared by the print head? or does it look like actual
extra dots that the printer and driver are deliberately printing?
Paul
It looks like ink is missing, like one or more horizontal lines aren't
printing. Not smeared ink. Or it looks like it's just printed very
lightly. I did print a multi-page pdf document that has colored
headings and black print on a white background, and after the 3rd of
10 pages all of the black print was instead printing green.
Then, testing the theory that it might be an issue with Libre office
and maybe its import of .doc files or something, I opened an older
.doc file in LO, and selected the option to print black and white, and
it printed nothing at all on the page. I exported it to a pdf file,
and that also printed nothing, while printing from Atril (mate's pdf
viewer). Printed a test page from the printer and that printed
perfectly. Then I opened a document in LyX and did a doc preview in
the pdf viewer, printed 1 page and it printed perfectly as well.
So, I probably should have experimented a bit more and realized it was
an application issue before filing the bug report -- more specifically
Libre Office. For the most part I can probably work around that or
troubleshoot it later. At any rate, feel free to close this bug report
and I'll remember to use some of my trouble-shooting skills before
filing another one. I'll keep an eye on the green vs black ink issue
mentioned above, haven't seen that one often.
Sorry for the noise.
Cia W.