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RE: PageMaker 6.52 to HP 8550--problems? solutions?
Subject:RE: PageMaker 6.52 to HP 8550--problems? solutions? From:Sanjay Srikonda <SSrikonda -at- invlink -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:32:17 -0500
were the drivers for 95x/98x or NT4? Is the printer even compatible with
NT? I know this sounds like a dumb question, but I just screamed up a
bloody storm at our IT guys who installed a HP printer that wasn't
compatible with 2000 and didn't bother to check first.
Also, have you tried to generate a PDF and then print the PDF? At least
that way all the font and tracking and everything would be encapsulated into
the PDF.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:30 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: PageMaker 6.52 to HP 8550--problems? solutions?
Hi. Yes, I know it's 5:30 Friday and hardly anyone is looking at techwr-l,
but HE-E-E-E-L-L-L-L-P.
We just had an HP 8550 GN installed today, and it is garbling everything I
send it from PageMaker. All the text is tracked wrong (way wrong), and it is
substituting Courier, seemingly at random, for various fonts in various
places. Some colors are funky, too.
All of these documents printed fine on the 8500.
I've downloaded and installed the latest drivers (HP's suggestion)on the
server and installed the latest PPD on my client. I've twiddled every
PS-related menu option I can find on both the printer control panel and the
driver, and nothing has changed. Any thoughts? (Both the server and client
machines are running NT 4.)
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