Symptom

Possible cause

Solution

 

 

 

Printing errors

A print job was not sent to the printer that you wanted.

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

Check the AppleTalk name of the printer displayed on the configuration page.

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

You cannot use the

Background Printing has

LaserWriter 8.3

computer while the printer is

not been selected.

Turn Background Printing on in the

printing.

 

 

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 later

 

 

Turn Background Printing on by selecting

 

 

File, Print Desktop, and Background

 

 

Printing.

 

 

 

An encapsulated PostScript

This problem occurs with

Try downloading the fonts contained in the

(EPS) file does not print with

some software programs.

EPS file to the printer before printing.

the correct 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.

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