No Print Spooling

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Any printer setting that says something to the effect that "text prints
as graphics" or similar you should enable.

Dan wrote:

> Printing is OK, if I print directly to printer. If I select "Spool print
> documents..." from printer Properties, I can not print text from Word, Excel.
> Wordpad, or Notepad. If there is the slightests little graphic on the page,
> it will print both graphic and text. Otherwise the pages pass through the
> printer, but the print head does not move. PDF documents and web pages print
> OK. First page of e-mail prints; it has table with addresses. Also, I can
> print OK to this same (shared) printer from another computer on network.
>
> I can print a test page with Spooling on, but it has a graphic at the top.
> Print Spool service is on as well as Remote Procedure Call(RPC). I have
> reinstalled drivers after following procedure at
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Cl [...] rivers.htm .
>
> Now I'm stumped and hoping for suggestions.
> OS is XP Home, Office 97

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Ok, what printer model is it?

Dan wrote:

> Thank you for pointing me in that direction. My old printer does not have
> that capability. Perhaps I am the victim of obsolescence.
>
> "Bob I" wrote:
>
>
>>Any printer setting that says something to the effect that "text prints
>>as graphics" or similar you should enable.
>>
>>Dan wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Printing is OK, if I print directly to printer. If I select "Spool print
>>>documents..." from printer Properties, I can not print text from Word, Excel.
>>>Wordpad, or Notepad. If there is the slightests little graphic on the page,
>>>it will print both graphic and text. Otherwise the pages pass through the
>>>printer, but the print head does not move. PDF documents and web pages print
>>>OK. First page of e-mail prints; it has table with addresses. Also, I can
>>>print OK to this same (shared) printer from another computer on network.
>>>
>>>I can print a test page with Spooling on, but it has a graphic at the top.
>>>Print Spool service is on as well as Remote Procedure Call(RPC). I have
>>>reinstalled drivers after following procedure at
>>>http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm .
>>>
>>>Now I'm stumped and hoping for suggestions.
>>>OS is XP Home, Office 97
>>
>>