Hi All,

I'm experiencing poor printing quality when printing enroute charts on my HP Color LaserJet CM1312.

While the generic chart details and the orographic data are printed correctly with colors corresponding to the screen preview, the airspaces whose lower limit corresponds to ground level, the airspace boundaries in general and the planned route path are printed with ugly dithered colors that are quite different (very saturated) from the colors seen on screen, and because of this strange dithering they limit the readability of the covered symbols and words in the chart.

I've made lot of trials, tweaking all known printer settings related to colors and color management (including color management assigned to the host system, then to the printer, then completely disabled), but the printing quality seems to be totally unaffected by these settings. On the other side, any other document produced by the Print Centre is totally OK.

I will try to post a photo of the output print as soon as I manage to upload the image somewhere (I've lost my Imageshack password and I'm waiting to receive the password reset email )

Am I missing something? Is there anybody who uses the same (or similar) printer and managed to get an acceptable printing quality?

Thanks a lot in advance for any advice!

EDIT: here is what I get from my printer, notice the dithered and saturated colors used to render airspaces, boundaries and planned route:



Best regards,
Filippo

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Filippo1974
PPL(A) holder - CPL + IR + MEP in progress
Senior specialist in throwing Italian ATS units into panic every weekend.