Mark, Thanks for battling this headache, almost at the stage of looking for a new printer
Quote:do you mean that you are using a driver that came with the operating system
Yes, with XP Pro until I downloaded the 2 drivers from HP and tried today. Currently running under the NT 4.0 driver from HP's site.
Quote:Are you using any non-Microsoft programs that print to that printer other than Q&A?
Drawing programs include Visual Cadd, Auto Cadd Lt (just uninst but was printing fine), Vector and Rhino.
Print direct from Scanner (HP5300c)
Print photo's using Cannon Photo Record and Kodak Picture Printer
Also print from Adobe Acrobat & Distiller as well as Photoshop.
Dos programs are Q&A of course and our CNC software but that is just printing from its built in text editor.
Most of the others are MS programs such as Office.
Now we also run under Lantastic which will not let XP share its printer, so as a check I uninstall Lantastic and removed the XP machine off the network but this made no difference with the printing problems.
Mark, I can print using the print default or by clicking options in the print dialog box method, that I can handle, the real problem to me is that it reduces the form and font size. Fonts end up at about 8 to 6pt, and the form at 6.25" wide thats the real headache.
thanks becky