Newsletter Problem

[Barry]

The printing company for our Club's newsletters told me that some of the
graphics and text boxes appeared grainy on the final print. They said that
the boxes and images didn't contain enough dots to let the camera see them
clearly. Some of the text box outlines failed to print or were too light. I
used a HP Laserjet 2100 with PCL6 drivers for the job. We use MS Publisher
XP which they say is limited. Can any settings be tweaked? I'm confused as
to why this is happening. Could you please help? Thanks
Barry

 

[Mary Sauer]

Commercial printing
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/CH011217311033.aspx

Free PDF writer
http://www.primopdf.com/

 

[Ed Bennett]

The printing company for our Club's newsletters told me that some of
the graphics and text boxes appeared grainy on the final print. They
said that the boxes and images didn't contain enough dots to let the
camera see them clearly. Some of the text box outlines failed to
print or were too light. I used a HP Laserjet 2100 with PCL6 drivers
for the job.

Is this a printing company or a copy shop? Are they working from digital
files or from your laser prints?

If you are sending a Publisher file or a PDF generated from Publisher, the
limiting factor is likely to be the quality of your images.
If you are sending a laser print to be copied, the issue is more likely to
be the settings, configuration, or limitations of your printer.

We use MS Publisher XP which they say is limited.

You use Publisher 2002, there is no such product as Publisher XP. Publisher
2002 was a part of Office XP (Microsoft likes to confuse you).

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Who is "they" and why do "they" say it's limited? Or rather, what part of Pub
2002 do "they" think is limited?