MDI printing & highligher Alignment issues

[Doc]

Can anyone provide some assitance with an issue I'm having.
I scan a document which is saved in Jpeg format. I then open the document
and choose MDI as my printer. The document then come up in MDI on my screen.
I use the highlighter tool (color black) to hide/cover up information on the
page. When I print the page with the black highlights, the highlights on the
screen which clearly coverup what I required have shifted and my
highlighted/coverup data is now visiable. I end up with black strips that
don't cover up the correct info.
I had no issues with this until I upgraded to MS Office 07 and had to
activate the MDI option.
Any help out there?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Doc,

What happens if you scan directly to MS Office Document Imaging from MS Office Document Scanning?

In MS Office Document Imaging are you saving the file as .MDI or .TIF and what printer are you then sending it to?

When saving in MS Office Document Imaging are you making the Annotations permanent and if you close the file then reopen it are the
annotations there?

===============Can anyone provide some assitance with an issue I'm having.
I scan a document which is saved in Jpeg format. I then open the document
and choose MDI as my printer. The document then come up in MDI on my screen.
I use the highlighter tool (color black) to hide/cover up information on the
page. When I print the page with the black highlights, the highlights on the
screen which clearly coverup what I required have shifted and my
highlighted/coverup data is now visiable. I end up with black strips that
don't cover up the correct info.
I had no issues with this until I upgraded to MS Office 07 and had to
activate the MDI option.
Any help out there? >>

--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Doc]

Hi Bob,

Many thanks for the reply.

Scaning directly to MS Office, scanning & saving file in .tiff ; all produce
the same result as when I was scanning to JPeg - the highlighting on the
screen is correct but printing a hard copy from my printer has the highlights
in a different location.

However, when I make the highlights permanent the highlights print a
properly highlighted hard copy. This will work for me in the short term but
long term I need for the hard copy printing to print the temporary highlights
in the same place as on the screen.

Basically, what I have is a hard copy document (I don't receive it
electronically). It has information on it that applies to numerous
individiuals, I cover certain parts for some and other parts for other. I
never saved the documents because each individual receives the info in
hardcopy - I just covered up what I needed, undo, cover up what I need for
the next individual - all from the same open 'on screen' file. With having
to make the highlights permanent I need to make a master electronic document,
save, cover data for Person A, Save & print, go back to master document,
cover data for Person B, Save & print..... a much longer process.

The non permanent highlighter worked before the MS Office 2007 install &
subsequent reactivation of MDI - why is what I see on the screen not what I
see when I print a hard copy? Puzzled.....

 

[Bob I]

FWII your issue may be caused by the printer driver. HP's "advanced
printing features" will skew things a bit. Try looking in Printing
Prefferences for "Advanced" and then "Advanced printing features" and
disable it.

 

[Doc]

Have a Brother MFC-7820N.

Went to Printer Printing Preferences. No disabling in advanced. Options are
Resolution HQ1200 / 600dpi / 300dpi
currently set to 600dpi
Toner Save Mode Off / On
currently set to Off
Print Settings Auto(Recommended) / Manual
currently set to Auto(Recommended)

I actually have 3 different printers - all brothers (different models) - all
3 have skewed/mis-aligned printing for highlighting done temporarily.

 

[Bob I]

"print settings" - Auto

What does changing it to "manual" do for you?

 

[Doc]

Graphics - Use Printer Halftone / Use System Halftone
currently set to Use Printer Halftone
if choose Use System Halftone additional options of;
Improve Gray printing / improve pattern printing

True Type Mode
Mode - drop down list as follows
Print as Graphics
Download as TrueType
Download as Bit Image
currently set at Print as Graphics
For all of the modes can choose to select Use Printer True Type Fonts

 

[Bob I]

I would give Bit Image a try. You might also check to see if Brother has
an updated driver for the printer that may address the issue.