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Updated to Lion today and my printer's gone bonkers

Hi,


Sorry for the naive question.


Hoping you can help me - and thanks in advance, if so.


I updated my iMac to Lion today and updated my printer drivers too. I have a Brother 5240 mono laser printer and used the suggested 10.7 driver upgrade. But between the two updates, my computer/printer interface seems to have gone nuts.


Printing web-based documents doesn't seem to be a problem, but printing from Word/Excel (2008) is making my printer send out unwanted copies of documents. Using the file>print approach seems to be generating print jobs in duplicate, but if I press the printer icon I'm printing in sextuplicate! I've tried resending printed jobs, restarting my computer, reinstalling the drivers... but these problems seem to be consistent. Nothing suggests a setting has become modified to create unwelcome multiple copies - I've even checked all of my default settings.


I can't see any reason why my printer is now printing at least 2 copies of Word documents (up to 6 if I forget what I'm doing and pressed the printer icon in the ribbon toolbar) now that I'm using OS X 7.0.


Can anyone help me, please?


Ally

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Sep 11, 2011 3:22 PM

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Posted on Sep 11, 2011 5:59 PM

Web based documents are OK. Word/Excel documents are ng. What about other apps?

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Updated to Lion today and my printer's gone bonkers

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