Hi Mike, Grrr HP are hopeless at updating their Mac drivers … I never recommend HP Printers for use on Macs. Have you selected the printer model here ands check if you have the latest drivers for OS X 10.5?
<http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProductList.jsp?locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=436089> Did you check you had A4 Paper Size? Cheers, Ronni On 12/10/2011, at 2:49 PM, Mike Moore wrote: > Ronni the OS is Leopard which has the HP drivers built in supposedly. I > have trawled the US HP website looking for updated drivers without any joy. > Ditto for troubleshooting information. > > I have also searched several forums looking for answers without any luck. > What I have discovered is that many Mac users have switched from HP because > HP haven't fixed their Mac printing problems. > > > On 12/10/2011, at 1:52 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> On 12/10/2011, at 11:59 AM, Mike Moore wrote: >> >>> Problem is from a mixed platform office. PDF's printed to this printer >>> from the PC print at the correct size and the colours are reasonably close >>> to the PDF. Same file printed from the Mac are always at 99% size and the >>> colours always acquire a green tinge (result is the same from both Acrobat >>> Reader and Preview). OS is up to date. >>> >>> Does anybody knows how to fix either of these problems? Thanks in advance. >> >> Hi Mike, >> >> You mention your OS is up to date …but what OS? OS X 10.4.9, OS X 10.5.8, OS >> X 10.6.8 or OS X 10.7.1? >> >> Have you checked your Print settings on your Mac in the Print Preview >> window, that Paper Size is A4 not US Legal or US Letter? >> File > Print - Paper Size >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard >> OS X 10.7 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
