Weird characters on Canon printers

Hi Donat,

I also get a intermittent scrambling of apparently random text on my Epson Stylus Photo 1290. My solution was to reinstall the printer in "Printer Setup Utility". Would be nice not to have to do this but this work around is quick and easy.

Yours,

Frank.

Hi Donat

I was just reading your thread I am having problems with my Epson Stylus 1290 and I cannot check the the printer utility. I presume I have to re install the printer utility u would go about this.

many thanks
rue

Hi!

I just got a brand new Mac Mini with a Lexmark All-in-One and I am having exactly the same problems!! All of the spaces come out as ( parentheses and the numbers end up scrambled. I found if I reprint the page it is fine.

Must be a software glitch somewhere and using double the ink needed really isn't a practical work around. Maybe someone at Apple could look into these for us because it doesn't seem to be related to specific printer type.

I've also had a similar problem entering my postal code in some Safari menus!

Thanks
Type

Yes, exact same problem on a Xerox Phaser 860. I've confirmed this on different machines, all running 10.4.2. It is application-independent, and font-independent, even w/PDF files, and very random. Sometimes closing the file and re-opening and printing again works. It happens about 50% of my prints, which is frustrating because I'm running 150+ expensive color prints a day and this happens all the dang time!

Any fixes, Apple?!

I?m having the same problem as well - using Canon IP4000. Printing has been buggy since the 10.4 clean install. Worked great before - even worked over airport, but no longer. I wonder if these companies need to update their drivers for the new os.

I'm experiencing the same problem on my Epson Photo Stylus 840. It's an intermittent problem when printing something in Safari.

I'll try Frank's suggestion and reinstall the printer in "Printer Setup Utility".

I found this info by Tom Gewecke here:
Tom Gewecke, "Garbled text in Safari" #3, 08:34am Oct 14, 2005 CDT This is specific to Safari:
"often garbled text is caused by the fonts Helvetica Fractions or Times Phonetic. If you have them, remove them. Also font caches can get messed up -- you can use FontFinagler to clean them (use Google to find it)."

and while searching scrambled text on google,I found info for a product called "Smasher" that deals with Mac OS X font cache and fixes these problems (relating to both printing problems and online viewing in Safari). Apparently this is not an isolated problem.

Have never seen that -- that's why I didn't answer. Maybe that's the reason for no answers.

I used to get scrambled type also, but not just to a Canon printer. I haven't seen it in a while. (I did not just jinx myself). Not sure why. Hope you find out the reason. I'm curious, too.

Same problems with:
Xerox Phaser 6100DN
Epson Stylus 740
Epson Stylus 1160
Epson Stylus 1520
HP DesignJet 455CA
Pagesender Fax

from different computers with Mac OS X 10.4.2

I've also the same problems sometimes when dowloading for the first time a PDF from a web site... I think that the problem came before printing...