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Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:04:31 -0600
From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print quality unreadable in Firefox
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 19 February 2016 at 23:13, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have been having a problem printing in Firefox for quite some time. It
> > seems fonts are being rendered in an unreadable way, but it doesn't
> > always do this.
> >
> > I've also noticed that Firefox is the only application that does this:
> > LibreOffice, various PDF readers, etc are all printing fine.
> >
> > I was able to print the invoice I needed by selecting, copying & pasting
> > into LibreOffice (which even retained the formatting.)
> >
> > Firefox even does this while printing to PDF, so I've attached a small
> > sample of search results from bugs.g.o. (TestPrint-BadQuality.pdf)
> >
> > Has anyone seen this and know how to fix it? I've been wading through
> > search results for almost an hour and found nothing.
> >
> > Dan
> 
> I can confirm this happens to me as well, something related to fixed
> width font I guess. But as I can never actually make firefox print
> what I actually see, I usually give up and just copy content manually.
> 
I had the same problem.  In my use-case, changing my print driver from
PCL/CUPS to Gutenprint solved the issue.

I have the feeling this was specific to my set-up and printer, though it
might be worth looking at.