Shifting Text, Printer Driver Conflict?

[Cindy Caughey]

I've had this problem for a while. My group prints to a
number of different printers on our network, when we print
to one color or black and white printer, things are fine,
if we print to another printer afterward, the body text
box of the notes master page resizes itself, and/or text
rewraps, and our client is upset because the consistency
of the project is off.

Does anyone know if this a printer driver conflict, or is
it something to do with the individual computers? And if
so... how on earth do I fix this?!

Thanks!

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi Cindy,

Can you give us specifics about the three printers? Is it
consistently the same printer that prints incorrectly or
is it consistently the second time you print the
(handouts?)no matter which of the three printers? What
version of PowerPoint are you using?

Thanks,
Glenna

 

[Cindy Caughey]

Hi Glenda,

I'm using PPT 2000 and running on Windows 2000. The black
and white & color printers for my department seem to be
fine. It's only when we jump to another department's
printer (b&w OR color) that we have the problems with the
text ragging. It doesn't seem to be file specific either.

Cindy

 

[Guest]

Hi Steve,

No, we don't usually print "fit to page" around here.

I haven't a clue. All I know is that I type in a specified
path and connect to my printer that way. Our color
printers do run on fiery servers (I think... some sort of
server anyway), but our black and whites don't.

Times, printer font, is what is having the wrapping
problems, but when I tried to find out if it was a Type 1
font in my fonts folder, all I could find is the Times New
Roman True Type font. Hmmm...

Cindy

 

[PPTMagician]

Hi Cindy,

If you're running on a Windows Network, you're using the
print drivers from the server, which I suspect are the
problem. We had a lot of trouble with fiery servers (very
frustrating) here. And PostScript drivers can produce
some odd results as well.

Try this:
Click on Start, Settings, Printers
Right click on one of your network printers (not one of
the fiery printers), select properties, click on the
Advanced Tab, click on the New Driver button and run
through the printer driver wizard to select the
appropriate driver. Hopefully it will allow you to
replace the network driver. After you've set the new
driver, try printing again.

If this works, contact your Network Admin to get the
printer drivers updated on your network server.

HTH,
Glenna

 

[Cindy]

The one that works says that it's set up using a stadard
TCP/IP connection and then lists the TCP/IP number. The
one that give us problems, doesn't have anything listed in
the ports tab...

I'll definatly replace that Times font!