I’m on testing branch. Some recent updates (it could be a couple of weeks) messed up printing for good. Meaning, EVERY WHITE SPACE IS PRINTED AS A DARK GRAY. Since most of the document’s surface is white, I get dark gray, almost graphite papers, which are useless. Moreover, it uses up a lot of ink.
Here is photo of an example how it looks like. Mind you, in reality, the gray is MUCH DARKER than on the photo.
I use the printer Brother MFC too, but I have no issue.
Maybe LibreOffice is the issue.
Try save text/document in PDF, then you print this PDF, does it work?
No, the issue is the same with pdf’s, however, I just noticed, that PDF previews show up dark, just like it is on print. This is suspicious and can’t be a coincidence.
So to sum up:
A documented opened up is shown correctly. Print preview is shown also correctly. Print makes white into dark gray. Dolphin preview of a PDF files also shows this dark gray instead of white.
This may be not a printer issue, or not a direct printer issue.
And on top of that, it’s not a problem with the user, because on a generic, test user the issue still persists. So this may go deeper. We are a step closer.
EDIT: Nautilus also shows this dark preview, so this may not be even KDE thing.
I don’t think that LO is the problem here. One of the PDF documents was PDF from the start and was created on Windows 2 years ago (no idea how). I’ll try to create PDF in other app and see what’s happens thou.
EDIT: Some PDFs from the web, are printing correctly. This is confusing. If this was only a pdf issue, but no, other formats also suffer from this, but maybe LO is someone adding to it? Hm… Need to make some tests.
I just updated the system and… it may be fixed. Now when I’m opening any documents in LO and saving it as PDF show correct preview (while old ones are still grayed).
Yay! Other formats now print correctly! So the today’s update fixed it!