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Mac Forum / Applications / Excel / August 2007Excel Printing Problems
Hi Does anyone else get printing problems in Excel on a Mac. I have a spreadsheet which prints fine in Windows - but on a Mac the values sometimes go slightly over cell boundaries, or sometimes virtually completely over on the edges of sheets. Is this an Excel, OSX or printer driver problem? Even in preview (before printing) the problems are visible. Thanks Are there any better Mac Excel groups? > Does anyone else get printing problems in Excel on a Mac. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Even in preview (before printing) the problems are visible. It's likely a problem between XL and your print driver, along with any font substitution going on. First, make sure your print driver is updated for your printer. XL reads from the print driver when printing/previewing. Second, make sure you're using a MS provided font as your Standard font (in Preferences/General), since that's what XL uses to calculate cell widths. Third, in the File/Page Setup dialog, change the Print Quality in the Page pane to High (or try another setting if you have others). > Are there any better Mac Excel groups? No. You're a genius (well a justified MVPS anyway!) It was a document I initially created in Windows. I changed the font as you suggested from Verdana to Arial - the problem remained. It was when I changed the print quality to high that the problem disappeared - to check I set the print qulity back to normal and the problem reappeared. The printer is an HP PSC1215 I am shocked that this makes a difference - I've worked as an IT consultant for 20 years - I thought that print quality was purely to do with ink and dots Thanks very much once again for your expert and kind help. > In article <1185455497.051087.118...@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > No. FYI, ever since I have been working with Excel (since it was multi-plan on 512K Macs, and distributed on 1 floppy disk) there have been all kind of problems with HP printers. So, I'm not shocked at all. The ONLY fool proof way to reliably print identically between windows and Mac platforms is to use post script.  SignatureBob Greenblatt [MVP], Macintosh bobgreenblattATmsnDOTcom > In article <1185455497.051087.118...@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > No. Thank you, thank you! I would never have imagined the Print Quality setting would solve this ridiculous problem. I've been on Macs since the first 128K, and only encountered this problem since I've been working on other platforms at other locations. Mysterious but perfect solution! |
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