success2be Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 When I try to print to my HP 810c printer, the bottom half of each line of text are chopped off. It looks like the text are unusually taller than normally would print in Windows XP. When I tried to print a test page via the HP driver in OS X, the print out looks fine. I tried printing from Pages, TextEdit and even Office 2000 through CrossOver Mac. All resulted in the chopped off text. Any ideas? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
kramer2k Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 When I try to print to my HP 810c printer, the bottom half of each line of text are chopped off. It looks like the text are unusually taller than normally would print in Windows XP. When I tried to print a test page via the HP driver in OS X, the print out looks fine. I tried printing from Pages, TextEdit and even Office 2000 through CrossOver Mac. All resulted in the chopped off text. Any ideas? Same problem with an HP842c maybe a rosetta issue? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-335191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 Same problem with an HP842c maybe a rosetta issue? Does that mean buying a newer USB printer or getting updated drivers would help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-335292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted March 29, 2007 Author Share Posted March 29, 2007 Problem solved. I downloaded the latest HP driver. It looked like the same version built into OS X. After the installation of driver, my HP 810c was not in printer list. I added the printer again, this time selecting GIMP driver. This is the driver you need to make the printing look correctly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-335318 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kramer2k Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Problem solved. I downloaded the latest HP driver. It looked like the same version built into OS X. After the installation of driver, my HP 810c was not in printer list. I added the printer again, this time selecting GIMP driver. This is the driver you need to make the printing look correctly. Hmm...can't seem to find this "GIMP" driver.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-336742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?pa.../en/mh2317.html Near the bottom of page shows how to use GIMP driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-336810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
success2be Posted April 13, 2007 Author Share Posted April 13, 2007 Here is the official Gimp-Print driver web site supporting old printers on the Mac. Enjoy. http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46769-solved-hp-810c-printing-chopped-off-text/#findComment-346374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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