Upgraded My Printer To A Shiny New Xerox Versalink C500 And...

... my document doesn't look the same AT ALL.

tl;dr: New printer prints the SAME document, with a much lighter font.

Background

I created a course and (sort of) make a living selling it. I print the 398 pages, hole punch them, put in binders, into boxes, ship and that's my day's work.

Recently, my aging Samsung CLP-415NW started going crappy on me. So I replaced it with a shiny new Xerox Versalink C500. I thought I was golden, but things got a bit more complicated than that.

The document

Nearly 400 pages, all COLOR text, printed on cream colored paper. A truly premium look. Well, I'm not exactly giving it away either, so it's worth it. I used to spend about $45 on ink, now with the Xerox it's more like $65 or $70. Anyway, on to the problem...

The problem

The problem is that the fonts look different. The main font is Bernhard Modern, printed in dark green, except with this printer the characters are much thinner. Maybe I should take a picture to show you? Anyway, the document has not changed. It's still set to use the same exact font it was before changing the printer, but the output from the previous printer looks semi-bold compared to the very lightweight output I am getting with the Xerox.

As such, the printouts of my course are now too light and make it look like a crappy printout when in fact it is positioned as a premium product.

Have any of you tech aficionados ever faced something like this? What can I do?

 

Yeah I think maybe the Xerox is using its internal font while the Samsung got it from my document, but I can't figure out how to change this behavior.

You're right though, this is a topic for the Xerox forum, not a general PC question.

 

Look for print quality in settings... maybe it is set to draft?

 

So I figured it out... To my dismay, the previous Samsung printer had a different version of the font installed in it, so the way it printed on THAT was actually technically wrong, but looked great.

Now I have to re-adjust the 400 page document to suit a printer that prints correctly. Sigh.

Thank you all for your advice!

 

fwiw...
Before printing a document, always print only one page.