Adobe acrobat pdf prints with gray background

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    Gray shading shows up when I print pdf documents

    /t5/acrobat-discussions/gray-shading-shows-up-when-i-print-pdf-documents/td-p/10499852 May 07, 2019 May 07, 2019

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    Most pdf documents print cleanly, but some pdf documents print so badly. When I print some documents, gray shading or highlights show up in the background of the texts .

    It's definitely invisible on screen, but this happens only when they are printed out.

    I think this is because the documents are not texts-based but image-based. I guess images of texts were copied and pasted in the documents.

    Is it a matter of the printer itself or the pdf viewer? Don't pdf viewer automatically sense the brightness and print only the texts on the page?

    

    I am not a native speaker of English, so my explanation may sound confusing.

    If anybody has a similar problem, please reply.