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Hello. When this CLP 325 prints it comes out with too much toner. Even on draft mode the prints are dark. I use only Samsung toner. What can I do?
Hey jerrynic, follow the instructions below (found straight from the manual): Adjusting color If you feel the color difference between the printout and monitor, you may change the color setting such as color contrast or color level. The printer driver provides graphic options to adjust the print quality for specific printing needs. 1.To change the print settings from your software application, access Printing Preferences (See “Opening printing preferences” on page 60). 2.Click the Graphics tab. Refer to the online help for each option’s information provided from the Printing Preferences. •Color Mode: You can choose color options between Color or Grayscale. Setting to Color typically produces the best possible print quality for color document. If you want to print a color document in gray scale, select Grayscale. Black Optimization allows you to print in high quality black. If you use this option, it might take longer to print. To adjust color manually, select Advanced in Color Mode. Simply slide the color balance slider in the Levels tab to adjust color, or select Matching tab for driver provided color correction for general image processing. •Advanced: You can set advanced settings by clicking the Advanced button. (PCL driver only) •Font/ Text: Select Darken Text to print text darker than on a normal document. Use All Text Black to prints solid black, regardless of the color it appears on the screen. •Raster Compression: This option determines the compression level of images for transferring data from computer to a printer. If you set this option to Maximum, the printing speed will be high, but the printing quality will be low. (PCL driver only) •Graphic Controller: It allows you to emphasize edges of texts and fine lines for improving readability and align each color channel registration in color printing mode. -Grayscale Enhancement: It allows users to preserve the details of nature photos, and improve contrast and readability among gray scaled colors, when printing color documents in grayscale. (PCL driver only) -Fine Edge: It allows you to emphasize edges of texts and fine lines for improving readability. •Toner Save: Adjusting this option extends the life of your toner cartridges and reduces your cost per page without a significant reduction in print quality. -You can move the slider from No Saving to Maximum Saving to reduce toner consumption. 3.Click OK or Print until you exit the Print window Extra -If it still doesn’t work then changing the toner would be another option. -Let me know how it goes.
Windows 10 chooses universal printer driver 3. This is buggy and causes dark prints on old samsung color printers. You can use the win+X buttons to select- devices manager- then -printers- then right click- update driver - installed drivers then choose your printer. If it’s not there install from the website or original cd. If I wasn’t so gullible I’d think s**sng or m nobbled the driver to encourage new purchases … but I think it’s probably just- “can’t be bothered to optimise a new driver for old printers.”……..- there’s no money in that, dude!…..
