Excel 2008: Can't print certain files to certain printers
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Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
The company I work for is preparing to upgrade all of our Macs from Office 2004 to Office 2008. Our test users have had trouble printing many of their Excel files to our HP Laserjet 4000-series printers, though.
We've found two seemingly distinct issues when printing to the following models of printers (of which our business has quite a few):
-HP Laserjet 4000
-HP Laserjet 4050N
The printing issues are not present on this model:
-Konica Minolta CPP650
1. Any Excel documents with printing of gridlines enabled (in Page Setup -> Sheet) will not print. The print job will go through the local queue as normal, but the page will never come out of the printer.
2. Certain Excel documents that use scaling (in Page Setup -> Page) will not print, exhibiting the same symptoms as problem #1. Changing the scaling to a higher percentage (99-100%) seems to allow them to print.
The first issue seems consistently reproducible, even on a new document. The second only applies to certain documents we have, but I can send samples to any Microsoft BU people for whom they'd be useful.
Any help or advice would be appreciated -- thanks!
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Relevant Pages
- Re: Good All In One for a teacher
... I do not know how old the printers you have tested are, but since about the DeskJet 850 the HP DeskJet's draft mode has been pretty good for plain paper text, and for most cases there is little difference in print quality between normal and best mode for text. ... I stand by my original assertion that draft is pretty acceptable for most users for normal printing on any recent HP inkjet printer. ... EconoMode on some HP's LaserJet printers to be unusable. ... In the development of the ISO standard there were those that wanted to make the testing based on continuous printing and those that favored a user rate test, ...
(comp.periphs.printers) - Re: Good All In One for a teacher
... I do not know how old the printers you have tested are, but since about the DeskJet 850 the HP DeskJet's draft mode has been pretty good for plain paper text, and for most cases there is little difference in print quality between normal and best mode for text. ... I stand by my original assertion that draft is pretty acceptable for most users for normal printing on any recent HP inkjet printer. ... EconoMode on some HP's LaserJet printers to be unusable. ... In the development of the ISO standard there were those that wanted to make the testing based on continuous printing and those that favored a user rate test, ...
(comp.periphs.printers) - Re: MSWORD 2004 Printing Problems on MAC OS X
... I'm using Word 2004 version 11.2 and Mac OS X version 10.4.6 and printed ... Using the print preview before printing would be a good way to save paper. ... The two printers that I used for testing were a HP LaserJet ... ruled out Printer problems. ...
(microsoft.public.word.newusers) - Re: Final solution..XP?
... hardware, and doing the necessary work to replace postcript as the 'one true way' of printing, and writing printer drivers left right and centre..or even finding a away to use most of the windows drivers..the printing is for me the worst aspect of the MAC, apart from lack of software to run on it. ... What do you think Mac users do for printing, ... All the printers here at work print at a reasonable speed using drivers provided by the manufacturer and which come, by and large, with OS X. ... I didn't really care all that much about the platform I booted up, only that I wanted something better than Windows 2000 or Linux. ...
(comp.sys.mac.advocacy) - Re: Final solution..XP?
... hardware, and doing the necessary work to replace postcript as the 'one true way' of printing, and writing printer drivers left right and centre..or even finding a away to use most of the windows drivers..the printing is for me the worst aspect of the MAC, apart from lack of software to run on it. ... What do you think Mac users do for printing, ... All the printers here at work print at a reasonable speed using drivers provided by the manufacturer and which come, by and large, with OS X. ... I just though OS X was a real operating system, the dev tools looked superior to anything else, and the hardware was sufficient for our purpose. ...
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