Rendering problem in output of Pages 5.1

I see you followed Jerry's advice to post over here, and haven't got any responces, so I'll at least try to get a little more information into the discussion.

Since the document prints to pdf correctly, but not to the actual printer, it seems likely that it is a print driver issue. In the Numbers discussion on the issue, the original person with the issue was using a HP printer with a postscript driver. Since the HP support site was not very clear about whether a driver for that printer on Mavericks even existed, and the recommendation for a generic driver was for a PCL driver, not postscript, I suspect that they were not using a recommended configuration. It would probably be helpful to know the details about your printer and print driver.

Do you have access to more than one printer to test this on?

The new versions of Numbers and Pages are doing something strange in terms of how they copy tables to the system clipboard; the pdf version is no longer available, only bitmap images. Print to pdf, however seems to still get the pdf data. I don't think this should have anything to do with the data getting to the print driver, but it does seem consistent with your results.

Experienced the same problem with jagged text trying to print a table from the latest Pages to an HP CM 2320 fxi. Went back to the old version of Pages '09, recreated the same document and it printed perfectly with sharp text. Strangely, it didn't work to export to PDF from the latest Pages and print from there - still got jagged text.

What background do you have?

Have you tried it against a clean white background?

You may just be looking at the effects of being on top of a coarse half tone screen.

Peter

Hi everyone,
I'm having the same problem – text in tables looks ugly when I'm printing from the newest version of pages. Only printing from Pages09 seems to work so far.

If there's a solution to this I'd be really glad since I have to set up templates for others to use and they'll mostly work in the new version of pages.

I run OSX 10.9.1 on an iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010) printing with a HP Color LaserJet CM2320fxi MFP (Driver version 19.9).

Best, E

Same problem here (printing of tables from latest versions of pages / numbers on HP Color Laserjet 2320fxi MFP). We just discussed this problem with the hp support. Besides from upgrading to the latest driver (v 19.9) they did not offer any solutions.

Furthermore they told us to adress our problem to apple as the mavericks drivers are no longer provided by hp themselves. Apple is in charge now. Duh. I´ll give it a try but are expecting to be adviced to buy new printers for our company...

Hi,

(Sorry for my bad english). I've found a way to solve the problem in another discussion, hope this helps. To fix the print quality, you need to re-install your printer with Bonjour/air-print (just create another printer in the list and select your printers, add a new name and delete old one). Don't really figure out the original problem but seems Maveriks have a better print driver that way and finally, i can print nice pages 🙂

But sadly, i still got the same problem with pdf left, haven't find a solution (normal text is sharp, table text is ugly for every fonts/weight/colors/sizes/etc... with export and/or print to pdf). If someone can help ?

Thanks.

Sorry for double post...

Message was edited by: Nomaxu

I've just find out that my problem (maybe) came from the font smoothing generated with pages, normal text seems to use subpixel font smoothing but tables doesn't. here's a zoomed screenshot from exported pdf (same helvetica normal text for both, no borders, backgrounds, shadows...) :

Pages 5 problem.

Pages '09 no problem.

Choose wisely grasshopper.

Peter

After a few sessions of screensharing-troubleshooting with the Apple Support the problem remains unsolved on my system. According to the support all printer-driver-version related causes could be eliminated.

I was able to produce flawless printouts with Numbers v.3.0.1 (no further changes on my system) but not with the latest versions of iWork products.

The problem only occurs while printing text in tables on various hp printers from the latest versions of Numbers, Pages and Keynote. We tried two different Canon Models as well and everything works fine on them.

The iWork Team already asked for all my system specs after my last post here - hopefully an iWork Update will follow soon.

You are not listening.

It is a known problem with Pages 5.

Use Pages '09.

Peter