Crummy Grays on LaserJet 5

[Michael Sweet]

chad royer wrote:
 > ...
> I just got a LaserJet 5, and am printing from OS-X 10.4.9 with CUPS
> 1.2, using the 'HP LaserJet Series PCL 4/5 CUPS 1.2' driver. I am
> consistently getting really crummy results for grays/grayscale ramps.
> I have the printer set to 600DPI, so it should be able to print
> smooth gray areas.
> 
> Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere, or something I should be
> doing differently? Or is this an issue with CUPS rendering?

Since that driver doesn't implement its own dithering, you're at the
mercy of the built-in dithering capabilities of the cgpdftoraster
filter provided by Apple.

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