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macbook pro snow leopard fails to print correctly on any printer
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<blockquote data-quote="mladen99" data-source="post: 1238646" data-attributes="member: 102986"><p>> The Font Update was available through Software Updates, but should be</p><p>> available as a standalone download from </p><p>> <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1377" target="_blank">Snow Leopard Font Update</a></p><p></p><p>I downloaded and installed the fonts but the print errors of my HP PC1025nw didn't change a bit. It does not print colored dots from a figure although it </p><p>prints BW lines and colored text from the same figure. The same happens whith a pdf file printed from Preview and a ps file printed from gv. (ghost view). </p><p>There are other errors. For instance, all "ff" cause either additional space in a line or shrinking; e.g., it prints "efficiency" as effi ciency" and the line protrudes from the paragraph. There are no problems with viewing of these files on the screen. I can't believe that HP sells the printer with a faulty driver, that they have a faulty driver on their site, and that a faulty driver is in the Gutenprint. (The vendor says they've tried that type of printer on a Snow Leopard and found no errors. They didn't want to try it with my files though.) Can it be a hardware error? Should I take the printer to another computer for a test?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mladen99, post: 1238646, member: 102986"] > The Font Update was available through Software Updates, but should be > available as a standalone download from > [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1377]Snow Leopard Font Update[/url] I downloaded and installed the fonts but the print errors of my HP PC1025nw didn't change a bit. It does not print colored dots from a figure although it prints BW lines and colored text from the same figure. The same happens whith a pdf file printed from Preview and a ps file printed from gv. (ghost view). There are other errors. For instance, all "ff" cause either additional space in a line or shrinking; e.g., it prints "efficiency" as effi ciency" and the line protrudes from the paragraph. There are no problems with viewing of these files on the screen. I can't believe that HP sells the printer with a faulty driver, that they have a faulty driver on their site, and that a faulty driver is in the Gutenprint. (The vendor says they've tried that type of printer on a Snow Leopard and found no errors. They didn't want to try it with my files though.) Can it be a hardware error? Should I take the printer to another computer for a test? [/QUOTE]
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