Symptom

Possible Cause

Solution

Printing Errors

A print job was not sent to your desired printer.

Another printer with the same or similar name may have received your print job.

Check the AppleTalk name of the printer displayed on the self-test page.

Make sure the cables are connected correctly, the printer is on, and the Ready light is on.

You cannot use the

Background Printing has

LaserWriter 8.3

computer while the printer

not been selected.

 

is printing.

 

Turn Background Printing on in the

 

 

Chooser. Status messages will now

 

 

be redirected to the Print Monitor

 

 

allowing you to continue working

 

 

while the computer is processing data

 

 

to be sent to the printer.

 

 

LaserWriter 8.4 and higher

 

 

Turn Background Printing on by

 

 

selecting File, Print Desktop, and

 

 

Background Printing.

 

 

 

An encapsulated

This problem occurs with

Try downloading the fonts contained

PostScript (EPS) file does

some software

in the EPS file to the printer before

not print with the correct

applications.

printing.

fonts.

 

 

 

 

Send the file in ASCII format instead

 

 

of binary encoding.

Your document is not printing with New York, Geneva, or Monaco fonts.

Select Options in the Page Setup dialog box to deselect substituted fonts.

USB Problems

Unable to print from a third-party USB card.

This error occurs when the software for USB printers is not installed.

When adding a third-party USB card, you might need Apple's USB Adapter Card Support software. The most current version of this software is available from Apple’s web site.

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HP 1200 manual Symptom Possible Cause Solution Printing Errors, USB Problems, LaserWriter 8.4 and higher