Thursday, February 16, 2006

Windows native printing

I'd like to hear everyone's experience with native printing on Windows.

If you get funny characters printed, then your printer is doing font substitution. You need to change the print defaults... in the printer settings and find the font substitution settings to disable it.

Please post comments on your experiences. I may take a look to see if this can be fixed.

Francisco

4 comments:

newellista said...

I have a Brother MFC-8500 Laser printer. I was getting the mirrored image as well, but I disabled the Advanced Printer Features, and it now prints just fine.

Thanks for your fine work.

Unknown said...

I am working on Windows XP SP2 and my printer is HP LaserJet 4. My experience in printing with WinPlanner is none: just don´t print. It crash. I install the gtk+ v.2.8.18.

Anonymous said...

I'm using Windows XP Pro, SP1.

I get the mirrored text as well. Where are the 'Advanced Settings' everyone is talking about?

Unknown said...

GTK 2.10.6 on WinXP SP2 and HP 8150 photosmart prints mirrored and compressed.

Nonetheless, I like it and will be using it!