diff --git a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/QRServlet.java b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/QRServlet.java
index e11f8d627..1ca1b5cd8 100644
--- a/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/QRServlet.java
+++ b/apps/imagegen/imagegen/webapp/src/main/java/net/i2p/imagegen/QRServlet.java
@@ -150,12 +150,13 @@ public class QRServlet extends HttpServlet {
 				if (text != null) {
 					BufferedImage bi = MatrixToImageWriter.toBufferedImage(matrix);
 					Graphics2D g = bi.createGraphics();
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_STROKE_CONTROL, RenderingHints.VALUE_STROKE_NORMALIZE);
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);
-					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
+					// anti-aliasing and hinting degrade text with 1bit input, so let's turn this off to improve quality  
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_STROKE_CONTROL, RenderingHints.VALUE_STROKE_NORMALIZE);
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_ALPHA_INTERPOLATION_QUALITY);
+//					g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
 					Font font = DEFAULT_LARGE_FONT;
 					g.setFont(font);
 					// doesn't work