"print darker" ? Pictures? Text? B&W? Color? Everything?

Did you review and try to adjust using the print quality entries in the printer's Properties? Depending on what your model has did you review the information in the Toolbox? Product Assistant? Solution Center?

My experience with my HP printers is when printing is not vivid enough it is time for a new cartridge(s).

DA

Print darker black text.

I did just try adjusting settings in properties and it didnt change anything.

I've been in an online chat with HP and they just want to go through all the troubleshootings; ink low, cables plugged in, bla bla bla.......

It prints fine but when I make a black copy of something hand written, the text is not dark enough to fax; the fax reciepient can not read the text because it's too light.

I'm trying to see if there is a setting on the printer to make it print darker.

The printer is brand new and the ink cartridges came with it. I've only printed maybe 4 pages since buying this. Do you think maybe the cartridges are not good and maybe I should buy fresh ones?

Make sure when you print something by hand it is done with black ink, blue doesnt copy well. As a matter of fact, a fine point black felt pen would work great

I'll elaborate more on what I'm trying to do so it'll make more sense.

I schedule appointments for technicians to go out and make repairs. Have to use pencil in the appointment book due to so many changes. At the end of the day, I have to make a photocopy of the appointment page and then fax that to the techs for the next day. Appt page will not fit in fax machine, too big, so I fold it, copy one side and then copy the other side.

This was not a problem with my other printer but I have gotten a new computer and printer and now this one doesnt seem to print the hand written text as dark as my other one did.

I can't find anywhere on the printer to adjust the settings to make it print darker.

Thanks for your help.

Faxing documents with non-ink text and paper other than white is difficult, tricky at best. If you were using a copying machine I might have a couple thoughts, but with a printer that makes it tougher.

Does your printer allow you to make a manual dpi adjustment?

Have you tried setting the printer for photo rather than text? This would allow the color cartridge to create the black rather than the black cartridge. When the three primary colors are mixed the outcome is black.

Desperately trying to help as I have had somewhat like concerns before too.

DA

does this machine also do scanning? if so try this scan the page, save it to your pc, then print from the scanned image, or if it is possible to email them rather than fax them you could email the scanned image.

I had a problem with my HP a while back trying to do a copy to fax when we were buying our house and in trying things I happened upon the scanning then printing from that and it made all the difference in the world in quality.

If you can scan it, when you save the file you might want to try saving it as a .bmp or as a .jpeg.

DA

Ok thanks so much, Yes my printer is also a scanner so I'll try scanning it then printing the scan.

Raven, great suggestion, unfortunately the techs dont have internet so I cant email it to them. And they refuse to get internet, old school type of fellows.

Sort of like my husband, he has no use for a computer or the internet but guess what? He is starting to slowly come over to the dark side! More and more places are making him use the internet; filing payroll taxes, corporate reports, clients wanting to email him. He may as well give up and get a computer for work.

Anyway, thanks again for the help. I can always count on you all here!

shaun,

Some HP printers do the following:

On the HP printer screen, open the Properties dialog box, you can select FAST, Normal, and Best printing.
You also can select plain paper, gloss, photo matt, etc.
Further more, there may be a place you can select " ColorSmart/sRBG" or "Application Managed Color"

All the above effects print density.

Hope this helps

dcarch