How to increase darkness - Canon iR 2016i Black and White Copier

If you would care to tell us the make and model of your camera (unless forbidden to do so by local or national security regulations), we might stand a chance of helping you. Until then, we too are in the dark.

Hi Richard,
Please try reducing the contrast a little and increasing the brightness till the dark shots are clear. Please also check the back light setting. It should not be too low.This should make all the dark scenes clearly visible if it only a setting problem. In case the overall brightness has reduced, please consult a local TV Tech.

Dark picture means you have low brightness on the screen. Please increase the brightness. Also try increasing the back light intensity.

decrease shutter speed, increase aperture size (lower F-stop), and/or increase ISO.

1. If you are printing using postscript driver, try using PCL6 - printout would be darker for grey scaled items.

2. Print in lower resolution 600dpi or 300dpi, printouts would be darker.

3. Try printing all characters as black


You can adjust darkness at the printer using the console menu.
In the Configuration Menu ' Print Quality sub Menu , there is a parameter called Tonor Density. Factory Default is 3. Set to 4 or 5 to increase darkness..

If your screen is that dark when it boots up, you may have lost the inverter that supplies the increased voltage to run the screens backlight. The commands for the lightening and darkening the screen are as follows.....

<Fn> and up-arrow key Increases brightness

<Fn> and down-arrow key Decreases brightness

Have a 40" Dynex LCD TV...Has been workin ok but i just turned it on today and pics are dark and yet all pics settings are ok. Pics are still dark even when i increase brightness from menu.

If it has batteries, and you are sure that it turns on, the darkness setting may have been cranked up to max. Press the 2nd button and then the up/down arrows in the top right. One will increase darkness, and one will increase brightness. You will probably have to press these over and over (roughly 5 times) untill you get the desired effect

go to printer driver properties.. 1.click printing preferences set it to USE PRINTER CONFIGURATION 2.go to advance click Printing Defaults set it to USE PRINTER CONFIGURATION
you must set this two configuration note: fresh installed driver defaulth to software control

Hi, I guess you are using the automatic mode ( not the "P" mode).
You should enable flash only when there is insuffient light. If you use flash in broad day light, your pic will be whited out. If you dont use flash in dark or low light, your pic will be dark or very dark.
So, when it comes of dark, try enabling the flash. If its still dark, increase the flash compensation (the eV value). If its still dark, increase the ISO number.
Hope these help.
cheers,