Hammermill Laser paper came to the rescue (sorta)
yesh, I filched some sheets from work to see if it'll work. And by golly, it DOES work. Very well in fact - and the color I chose for my letterhead is pretty much spot on, barring luminous differences between the screen and the paper itself.
It's a high quality coated laser color paper of 24-28Lb weight (per ream, with the heaver weight resulting in thicker paper sheets). I also used slow print speed, and premium presentation paper matte and it did the trick, so now I will reprint EVERYTHING. That is, my portfolio.
I may have enough to do all of this, but I'm afraid I may not so may filch an entire ream to have on hand, just this once and buy it from there on out. It's the higher quality paper used by our color copiers at work, and it does a fantastic job of color prints.
However, I began printing, and the issues still crop up, now more noticeable than before. The overall print quality is much improved, but the lines are still there, as if the images aren't completely straight, which they are.
Then I tried my Epson presentation paper, and the quality of the photos were much improved, but the lines were even more so obvious.
Now I'm trying to get the current portfolio to save as an updated PDF file so I can try printing directly from that.
UPDATE: It turned out the dialog box for the new saving of the PDF never showed up initially, but eventually it did, and I clicked on OK and it saved the new updated file so it's now updated. OK, printing directly from InDesign causes problems with the lines, saving as PDF fixes that so now I'll print up the REST of the portfolio.
So the trials continue.
It's a high quality coated laser color paper of 24-28Lb weight (per ream, with the heaver weight resulting in thicker paper sheets). I also used slow print speed, and premium presentation paper matte and it did the trick, so now I will reprint EVERYTHING. That is, my portfolio.
I may have enough to do all of this, but I'm afraid I may not so may filch an entire ream to have on hand, just this once and buy it from there on out. It's the higher quality paper used by our color copiers at work, and it does a fantastic job of color prints.
However, I began printing, and the issues still crop up, now more noticeable than before. The overall print quality is much improved, but the lines are still there, as if the images aren't completely straight, which they are.
Then I tried my Epson presentation paper, and the quality of the photos were much improved, but the lines were even more so obvious.
Now I'm trying to get the current portfolio to save as an updated PDF file so I can try printing directly from that.
UPDATE: It turned out the dialog box for the new saving of the PDF never showed up initially, but eventually it did, and I clicked on OK and it saved the new updated file so it's now updated. OK, printing directly from InDesign causes problems with the lines, saving as PDF fixes that so now I'll print up the REST of the portfolio.
So the trials continue.