Crazy printing ...

[suryah]

I'm using XP (SP2) and XP Office. This includes Publisher 2003.

I'm using a Canon S200 printer. This was previously attached to another
computer running Win98SE. There were no printing problems. I installed it to
the XP system using the Canon CD.

Now however it goes crazy when I use Publisher. I'm trying to print a
booklet, two A5 pages on a single A4 sheet. Everything pans out in Print
Preview.

When I print however, all sorts of crazy things happen. It shrinks the text
to nothing. It prints portrait instead of landscape. And more. Whatever I
tell it to do, it ignores.

As far as I can tell, there seems to be two sets of instructions - one
coming from publisher, the other from windows/the printer driver. When I set
it up in one screen and it looks OK, the other screen often says something
different. Even when I can get them to agree, it still goes ahead and prints
something else entirely.

Suggestions? (Don't say get another driver from Canon. They are absolutely
hopeless. The computer is a stand alone workstation without internet access
anyway).

 

[Mary Sauer]

It can only be a driver problem.
You need a XP driver.
Look at driver number 4 on the Canon download site, it has a 2003 timestamp, way
newer than a 98 driver.
http://software.canon-europe.com/Printers/Bubble_Jet_Printers/S200591.asp

 

[suryah]

Hmm. Thanks for the sarcasm.

But yes, you're right. It's actually Publisher 2002. I goofed.

As for being talented. No doubt. However, the Canon disc specifies that it
will work with XP. That it doesn't, or they didn't know what they were
talking about, is another matter.

Just because I was using Win98SE doesn't actually mean that it was purchased
in 1998. An unwarrented assumption there, perhaps.

An internet connection. Certianly, on this particular computer. The problem
lies however on the other machine. A thought that evidently didn't occur to
you.