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TL;DR: Printers suck. MS-Word sucks.

Yesterday I wanted to print a few participation certificates for my blender project students.

*Turns on printer, runs downstairs, gets paper, runs upstairs, puts paper in*

So I tried to print in word. Nothing happened. Printer was online. I checked queue: Nothing.

*a couple of tries later*

Okay, fuck it! I export it as a pdf and open it in edge (8 times. 8 documents. Edge is a neat pdf-viewer, fight me). I press print on one. It works. I print the others and check: They look shit. The images look like 25% resolution and 50% jpg compression. I check word.

It by default exports in low quality. Yea, thanks for asking me. I export pdfs again and check "high quality". Open them, print. Done.

These were like 30 wasted minutes and print color. And paper.

Btw they look fucking neat. I can't show them right now but gradient text headline, project name is a rendered and edited 3D object :D

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certificate of participation

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  • 4
    7y
    Leave the printer alone, it’s clearly all Microsofts fault. They should shut down their software division as their software is incredibly shite.
  • 1
    7y
    @helloworld Their responsible for the creation of VS code, I forgive them for all previous catastrophes 😂
  • 0
    7y
    @helloworld you're kinda right. This time it was MS doing the shitjob.
    Actually I'm proud of our printer. It has wifi support 😱
    Such wow, very modern!
  • 0
    7y
    You didn't even mention the kerning. I've zoomed in on some screenshots to check if it's just me, but no: Sometimes you can have a letter, a comma, a space and another letter and the amount of pixels between the first letter and the comma is exactly the same as the one between the comma and the second letter. Alternatively it sometimes makes spaces almost twice as wide. Or puts two letters almost inside of each other. Or so far apart that it looks like two words. And the printer at work then messes it all up a second time. I once had actually zero pixels of distance between two words, despite having typed a space.
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