When printing a report, why is RM not honouring the Print Quality set for the printer (in the device driver properties) ?
Even if I set the Print Quality to “Draft” (600dpi) in the printer driver properties, when RM prints a report it’s printed at “High” Quality (1200dpi). I know because then the pages are printed at half the speed.
I don’t understand why this is, and I couldn’t find any RM setting related to this.
How can this be avoided ?
You could save the report in PDF or DOCX format, then print the saved document while controlling the printer settings.
That’s a lot of extra work if I need to do that for every single print.
When printed to PDF, also the PDF is larger in size than normal
RM really shouldn’t do that, and leave it up to the user to decide about the print quality (what is normal behaviour in Windows).
Is there no setting or registry key for RM to stop this ?
I’m not understanding how the device driver settings could be being overridden by RootsMagic …since without the device driver being in control… it not only wouldn’t have to obey ANY particular settings, but it couldn’t even SEE a printer to print to.
Neither do I. But I can only tell what’s happening, and that is as I described : I can see and hear that printing is done half-speed. Maybe the device driver remains in control but with modified quality settings.
It even happened once that after a RM-print the device-driver quality setting remained on 1200dpi. I noticed that because a print from another program also was slower.
The setting is since years on 600dpi, and the behaveour I notice now only happens with / since RM.
You asked how the issue to could be avoided; I offered an option.
¯\(ツ)/¯
I attempted to replicate your issue. The normal printer default on my laserjet is 600 dpi. I lowered it to 300 dpi, then printed a report from RM. After the print, I checked the dpi setting of my printer. In theory, if I was experiencing your same issue, RM should have reset the dpi to 600. It did not do that … it remained at 300 dpi.
I’m a single data point so it’s not a strong sample size to extrapolate from. However, if others test and also have no issue, then it’s probably a problem to you locally. In that case, you might consider re-installing the printer driver and re-trying your RM printing. (I know you said you only notice the issue with RM, but re-installing a driver isn’t a difficult thing and shouldn’t impact the other apps.)