PIXMA iP7250 Prints outlines of fonts instead of Solid text

[Gotloft]

Dear Canon community (and maybe service team),
I'm having the same issue with my  Canon Pixima iP 7250  under  MacOS X Catalina 15.10.7 
I allready updated / downloaded all drivers anew that I could find for this model but it still prints outlines.
What are your recommendations?

[Gotloft]

(PS.: prints via USB with the same outcome: outlines only.)

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

What drivers version did you download and install?  

[Gotloft]

hey Rick,
Honestly, It’s hard to reconstruct what piece of software associated with this model by Canon I did not download and install. At least I deleted most of it later. But the last actual driver I tried was “iP7200 series CUPS-Printer Driver v.16.40.1.0 (Mac)”
What do you say?

(other pieces of software I tried somewhat randomely were
https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/1/0300039111/01/mem_-mac-ip7200-1_50-ea10_2.dmg
https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/5/0200004825/05/mnt_-mac-4_7_3-ea21_3.dmg
and https://gdlp01.c-wss.com/gds/8/0100005558/09/mcpd-mac-ip7200-16_40_1_0-ea21_3.dmg)

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

The 16.40.1.0a is the correct driver for Catalina OS 10.15.7

Do all documents / files print with this behavior, or just certain files or ones from a certain source or location?

Can you provide an image of the text for us please.

[Gotloft]

this photo has undergone a bit too much contrast enhancement though:
the text is actually rather grey than black, propably because it is a very small font [around 6 - 7 pt] and the outlines 'meet in the middle' leading to the impression of 'normal but grey' letters.

this occurs on PNG, pixel- and vector-PDFs alike.

this (attached) is the printout (greyscale mode) of a screenshot (PNG) of a vector-PDF.
Printing from my partners' Mac OS X 10.13.6 High Sierra leads to similar results.
color prints look regular (if slightly dissaturated)

thank you a lot for looking into this!