Printing Oddity

[ctkevin]

Anyone else experienced the following:

When I print an Excel 2002 spreadsheet, the print is full size, but the cell contents print outside of the cell lines. Starting at the top of the page, the sheet prints fine, but at about 2/3 of the way down the sheet, the cell contents begin to skew. By the time the last row prints, the contents are way off the mark and often print with the cell lines cutting through the cell contents.

This only happens our HP4SI and not on our HP4. I've tried using a different printer driver to no avail.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks, Kevin

 

[Dave Peterson]

Does your HP4SI emulate the HP4? If yes, could you use that driver?

And have you tried downloading a fresh copy of the driver?

 

[Harlan Grove]

Does your HP4SI emulate the HP4? If yes, could you use that driver?

May not help if the printer is on a network queue unless all other users
would be willing to use HP4 emulation. Mentioned because I don't recall if
this could be set by an escape sequence fed to the printer or would require
manual configuration at the printer itself.

And have you tried downloading a fresh copy of the driver?

Probably the better course, but if the actual problem were faulty printer
memory chips or noisy cabling, this wouldn't help.

For the OP: if this is a networked printer, do other people have the same or
similar problems printing to the HP4SI?

 

[Dave Peterson]

If this is a network printer and only the OP is complaining, then maybe he could
install the HP4 printer driver locally. Connect to the printer (call it LPT1 or
next available) and use that.

The drivers would be local for the network printer.

And if that worked, I wouldn't suspect a hardware error.

And I guess the next question to Kevin should be: If you have multiple HP4SIs,
does the problem occur on all of them. If not, maybe it is a problem with the
printer.