Poor Quality Laser Printing of an Image

BunkerGuy · 03-11-2009, 01:45 PM

Printer: Magicolor 2530DL

I'm printing to DVD cover type paper - slightly glossy - on highest resolution and selecting 'Glossy' for paper type.

Images and text are printing fuzzy and with jagged edges.

I'm sending to the printer via very old software - Fireworks 3 - yeah, extremely old I know. I've also printed from Photoshop 5 - yeah again, very old. I'm printing actual size - the picture hasn't been blown up and as far as I'm concerned the image is high quality.

Does the image file type make a big difference? I read that .tif is a good image format for printing. The image printed better as a .tif but was still way too fuzzy. I've tried .bmp, .jpg, .png too. All fuzzy.

Does it sound like the printer is the problem or the source material and what program the image was composed in? Do I desperately need to upgrade my picture editor since it's so old? It's frustrating because I was expecting better than this from colour laser. (I'm from the UK so am spelling color as colour!).

Any help greatly appreciated of course. Many thanks.

*I use such old software because I'm familiar with the interfaces and find them easy to use and simple. I do a lot of picture doctoring and these programs do the job.

03-11-2009, 01:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
BunkerGuy Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 27 OS: Vista Home Premium 64Bit	Poor Quality Laser Printing of an Image Printer: Magicolor 2530DL I'm printing to DVD cover type paper - slightly glossy - on highest resolution and selecting 'Glossy' for paper type. Images and text are printing fuzzy and with jagged edges. I'm sending to the printer via very old software - Fireworks 3 - yeah, extremely old I know. I've also printed from Photoshop 5 - yeah again, very old. I'm printing actual size - the picture hasn't been blown up and as far as I'm concerned the image is high quality. Does the image file type make a big difference? I read that .tif is a good image format for printing. The image printed better as a .tif but was still way too fuzzy. I've tried .bmp, .jpg, .png too. All fuzzy. Does it sound like the printer is the problem or the source material and what program the image was composed in? Do I desperately need to upgrade my picture editor since it's so old? It's frustrating because I was expecting better than this from colour laser. (I'm from the UK so am spelling color as colour!). Any help greatly appreciated of course. Many thanks. *I use such old software because I'm familiar with the interfaces and find them easy to use and simple. I do a lot of picture doctoring and these programs do the job.