Way to print darker

I have struggled to read the light print from this pdf:
http://www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/JWG/jwg_150_17-31.pdf and can barely read a printout of it from my printer. Halfway through, I remembered that my HP Laserjet 1018 has an "economode," which prints only some 80% of the ink that is normally used, but I had already turned that off.

The next time I come across a similar print job, what else can I do to get a darker copy?

 

Why not just read it on the screen ... and save our trees?

 

@SpywareDr - just saw bumper sticker that cracked me up.

Save a tree - eat a beaver.

 

Lol.

 

If your are referring to the list of reference legend entries. It looks like a smaller and slightly lighter font.

 

Sorry I don't understand what you are referring to.

 

Hi Paul, If you Download the info and use MS Word, can you Highlight text and use Bold to alter readability? Neil.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but its not only a PDF, but based on images, not text, so Word just jumbled it all up.

I suppose I could use an OCR to convert it into text, and then paste it and print it up, but that's a bit overkill.


This article, I simply increased the zoom in my PDF reader and read it online. And I have to say, that this isn't a common experience with PDFs online, so probably this is simply a result of a poor scan job by someone who doesn't do thsi for a living. At any rate, I was just thinking about what to do next time. I would have been in trouble if the article were much longer.

 

The numbered entries seem slightly lighter and slightly smaller. If that's not the case my apologies. More likely I'm the one not understanding the question.

 

You might try ensuring you are printing in B&W and not color. Since that PDF seems to be a scanned image (I note the text is tilted on the page) you might have some success with OCR software, then change the text to black, but I suspect you are simply out of luck.

 

You mean the footnotes at the bottom? Who bothers to read footnotes?

Seriously now--I think they are lighter, but even the text of the article is pretty light. I think you understood my question; its just that even the text is too light for my tastes.

 

I only print in B&W (that's the only ink I have).

OCR was an option, but it seemed like a bit too much.

I think you're right about being out of luck. Fortunately this rarely happens.

 

I don't know if this will help http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...s&contentType=SupportFAQ&prodSeriesId=1814092

 

Sorry, no, I think those solutions are for printer problems. My printer is fine. On any other print job it is doing quite well.

 

I'll keep researching. Have quite a few notebooks waiting to be repaired. But I will keep looking around when I take a little breather later on.

 

Thanks, though I'm suspecting that there isn't a solution around--at least one that is worth the time and effort involved.