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Panther problem or printer problem? What do you think?
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Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London, Ontario
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I posted the following yesterday in the peripherals forum but no one responded. What do you think?
Yesterday my HP LaserJet 1220 began acting very bizarre. Documents that I used to print just fine now won't print at all--the solid green light comes on and that's the end. If I turn off printer, back on again and reboot Mac then I can sometimes print,sometimes not. I tried repairing permissions, running the program Printer Setup Repair, reinstalling the HP PPD's from the Panther disks etc. but nothing seems to help. As far as I can tell the printer is fine--it works fine when connected to a PC. I'm using 10.3.2. Anyone else had this sort of problem with this printer? For me, my Mac has just become totally useless--a computer that won't print to an HP LaserJet is a useless computer for me. I'm completely stumped.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Milwaukee, WI,USA
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It's OS X, and its default Gimp Print, which is unstable. Do a search in forums for Gimp Print, You will find out how to uninstall it, and reload your HP printer's driver.
Gimp is alright for basic printing, usually, but I don't think it's ready yet. It's still being developed, as far as I know.
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Bogartte--thanks for answering.
I removed the Gimp-print and installed PPD's for HP printers but the problem didn't go away. So, yesterday I decided to figure out what was going on by trial and error. After about 4 hours of fooling here's what I found:
The documents that are a problem are all one-page Word docs which have a lot of tight formatting in them--graphics, Word equation editor equations and tables in addition to text. I finally found that if I put a page break somewhere about in the middle of the doc then the two seperate pages printed fine. So there's no problem in the document itself, just that Panther can't handle a single page that's too complex. Interesting to know, but the info doesn't do me any good because, of course, I want to print the docs as single pages. Since I made the orginals of the docs last fall in 10.2.8 and they printed fine, the problem lies in Panther. What to do now? I guess just reformat and reinstall 10.2 (and all my software, etc, etc).
Unless someone has any other suggestions.
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Nashville, TN
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I've been having a similar problem printing with my Canon. Will print the first job, then stall at the subsequent job. Spent some time on the phone with Canon, and they have seen that only a time or two. They determined it had to do with repairing permissions -- that when we repair them, we "repair" something that breaks printing. They said to take it up with Apple. I have not had time to do that yet (maybe this evening), but did send feedback to Apple. Another poster on one of the forums I visit suggested that when they turned off Fast User Switching, it cured their problem. I did that, but no cure for me. Good luck!
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Mary
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