| Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 4/12/12 9:37 AM | Using Chrome 18 on Windows 7. Also tried the newest Firefox and Chrome on a different PC. The issue is apparently server-side. - Printed text is low-quality; see attached image for reference. Grainy, pixelated, blurry, blotchy, spaces between letters |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 4/15/12 11:57 PM | No replies? We really need to figure this out, it's driving me nuts! |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Bas Braams | 4/16/12 3:37 PM | <<Clearly this is not a widespread issue, because i don't see too many threads. I'm confused as to what is going on.>> Sometimes I think that people are just throwing up their hands. Some of the problems that you mention are pretty much universal, I |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | SuzyQIndiana77 | 4/30/12 7:28 AM | My entire office is having the same problem! It started 3-4 weeks ago. It prints fine if you just print directly from google docs and don't try to change anything, but if I need to change which paper tray I'm printing to and have to click on the "p |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Papa Bear | 5/2/12 6:57 AM | I use Google Cloud Print with no issues on Chrome http://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/ Chrome extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ffaifmgpcdjedlffbhenaloimajbdkfg |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/2/12 10:37 AM | Tried that. I get the same horrible font quality and the extra blank pages. |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Papa Bear | 5/3/12 4:26 PM | @45332 Google Drive-Docs has more fonts per May 2, 2011 post. |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/7/12 4:57 AM | I just tried printing with some of the new fonts. I get the same grainy quality regardless of font choice. Printing with system dialog (ctrl + shift + P) also still shrinks the page; check out the attached image. Text was supposed to fill the whole A |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Adah | 5/7/12 8:41 AM | Hi there - I've tried to address each of your points below, and have a couple follow up questions. We're aware there are a number of issues with printing and are doing our best to get these fixes prioritized. In the meanwhile, the more info/examples |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/7/12 10:00 AM | Adah, thank you for your reply. - Yes it does happen regardless. The effect seems slightly different when saving as PDF and printing with Adobe Reader, compared to printing straight from Chrome. But both result in low-quality text being printed, whe |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Adah | 5/10/12 5:16 PM | Hi there - I don't think I can help much with #1, as this is most likely just the expected result of printing from a web-based document editor. As for 3, I do see the difference you're talking about in the docs, however this is attributed to the ex |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/13/12 7:19 AM | Oh, i respectfully disagree. For one, there was a point months ago where i was able to print from Docs just fine, without the font quality issue. Also, it seems to be working just fine for everyone else, otherwise there would certainly be a million c |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | SuzyQIndiana77 | 5/13/12 8:05 AM | I think I finally have an answer! I asked our IT person to investigate. As I posted earlier, our entire office started having this printing issue toward the end of March and on numerous printers. It was printing fine prior to that. Our IT looked i |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/14/12 11:03 AM | Sounds promising. I'm tempted to try the Chrome 19 beta. |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/16/12 12:56 AM | Good news, folks: Chrome 19 is out, and it fixes the shrunken page issue! So i now have a way to print Google Docs flawlessly again with ctrl + shift + P. They print out just as one would expect, with perfect font quality. Thank you Suzy for giving t |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Adah | 5/16/12 2:23 PM | Hi there - glad to hear that resolves the shrunken page issue. If/when you're able to confirm that the font quality issue (#1) persists when trying another printer, please let me know. So far, I'm unable to reproduce the screenshot you originally pr |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Bas Braams | 5/16/12 3:18 PM | <<Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues.>> Let me add to this conversation some documentation of bad export to pdf and bad publish to the web for documents that contain equations. For the present purpose the "equations" are of the s |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | 45332 | 5/17/12 9:01 AM | I just went through a bunch of my docs: It turns out that the extra blank page issue affects docs formatted to A4, but not those formatted to Letter. Switch to A4, blank page is there; switch to Letter, no blank page. Hope that helps in identifying t |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Papa Bear | 7/14/12 12:11 PM | See my Printing Tips and Tricks post at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/drive/share-tips-and-tricks/CWl1ZfgXsAg |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Blair George | 10/2/12 8:53 PM | I still have the issue regarding bad print quality in Chrome Version 22.0.1229.79 mI believe this quality issue is actually the browser not Google docs. Keeping this simple: in Gmail (via GA for business) if I pick the Print option for an email in c |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Brian Rundlett | 3/25/13 10:55 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Printing doesn't work as intended due to several issues. | Jrec | 4/6/13 6:56 PM | I have a problem similar to Blair George's. When printing out a document with Times New Roman font (12 pt) from Chrome 26.0.1410, the characters are compressed, as if the kerning had been reduced. Printing with Firefox produces clear output. I have c |