February 26th, 2012, 10:28 AM
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Zebra printer: printed images blurry
My customer recently bought Zebra GK420t printers and wants to print barcodes with them. The barcodes are JPEG files with a resolution of 3000x5000 pixels. The DPI is 203x203 and the images are 1-bit.
The barcodes are printed in Firefox. Because the barcodes only need to be about 150x250 pixels, I included them this way in the HTML-page:
Code:
<img src="barcode.jpeg" width="250" height="150" />
UPS is doing this the same way with their labels to keep a good quality image. When I print the labels with a laser printer they just look fine. But when I print them with the Zebra printer they look blurry. I also tried printing it in full size with the Zebra printer and they just look fine then. Below are the results I scanned:
Zebra vs Laser:

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/3869/zebra1.jpg
Zebra fullsize:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/6259/zebra2r.jpg
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Why is the result on the Zebra printer blurry?
February 27th, 2012, 08:20 PM
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Why not simply print it full sized? You say it looks fine printed full size...do that.
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