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 configuration page.

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 in the EPS

PostScript (EPS) file does

some software

file to the printer before printing.

not print with the correct

applications.

 

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.

ENWW

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