Print issues in laser jet printers

[mclarenchetan]

Greeting to all

I have been having issues with the line weights when i print in a laser jet printer,but the same print from a inkjet is better and sharper.The layers which are screened in the ctb have this issue and print very lightly.How do i go about with this issue or should i need to have a separate ctb when printing in laser jet printer.

[Kyle Reese]

Are you making use of the latest driver for your laser printer?

Could it be the quality of the paper in the laser printer?

[mclarenchetan]

The driver are updated and i have tried it on three different laser jet printers and in all the screened layers get printed very lightly when compared to same inkjet print

[Kyle Reese]

Then adjust the percentage of screening or change the lineweight of the layer that the screening is on.

[mclarenchetan]

That means i need seperate ctb's depending on the printer? because am happy with the same ctb's output from inket jet

[Kyle Reese]

Or not use the laser printer.

[NukeCad]

Have you checked what type the drivers are for the respective printers?

I have had a few problems in the past with a Laser printer not plotting correctly.

The plotter I was trying to use was a Toshiba Laser printer using a .psl2 (postscript) driver as default.
Postscript drivers are optimised for printing text documents, not graphics.

When I changed it through Windows to use a .pcl6 driver the problem was cured.

(I actually used a Hewlett Packard .pcl6 driver I already had loaded to use with our Designjet plotters, printed to the Tosh. laser with no problems).