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8.18 Problems with gray levels in printout

If you have problems with your shades of gray (e.g. light gray is indistinguishable from white) this might be well a problem in the Level2 Color Space calibration of your printer.

To ensure, it's a problem of your printer (and not a problem of the printer driver or PPD file) try the following:

• Save a printout to a file
• Edit the following line in your printout file: /\_NXLevel2 systemdict/languagelevel known {languagelevel 2 ge}{false}ifelse \_\_NXdef to: /\_NXLevel2 false \_\_NXdef
• Send the modified file directly to the printer using the commandline command lpr.

If you still have problem with the shades of gray, the printer driver/PPD file is probably broken, otherwise your printer is broken, which means he has problems with the Level2 color space calibration (The given correction turns PS Level2 off).

• (continue with 8.19 Can't print using additional fonts)