Printing (laser) black on white darkness

me

Hi, first post but using NP++ for years and very thankful for those who made and keep it.

Is there a way to darken printing to equivalent in MS Office/LibreOffice?

I have searched the forums and changed style parameters but nothing comes close to black on white, more like grey on white. I printed out a cookie recipe in NP++ and LO Writer and writer is imminently easier to read b/c its directly black on white paper whereas NP++ words are grey.

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PeterJones

@me said in Printing (laser) black on white darkness:

Is there a way to darken printing to equivalent in MS Office/LibreOffice?

You aren’t comparing apples to apples. Your fonts are completely different. Your monospace font appears to have very thin strokes, whereas your serif font in LO has reasonably-thick strokes.

Try printing from LibreOffice using the same font you use in Notepad++ … or, alternatively, try printing from Notepad++ using the same font you use in LO. (See Settings > Preferences > Style Configurator > Language: Global Styles > Style: Default Style to find out what your “plain text” font is in N++). I think you will find that your font choice is what makes the difference, not the application.

BTW: printing preferences are documented here: using the “black on white” option guarantees it’s black on white. If your eyes still disagree, then it’s definitely your font choice, not Notepad++.

Alan Kilborn

@me

I printed out a cookie recipe in NP++ and LO Writer

Try to be more explicit. I actually use LibreOffice and, until @PeterJones explicitly stated it in his response, I had no idea what you were talking about when you said “LO”.