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From: chem0255@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Strange Printing Problem
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.121935.3902@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 7 Jun 91 12:19:34 +1200
References: <1991Jun6.190919.964@colorado.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <1991Jun6.190919.964@colorado.edu>, heuring@kirk.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes:
> 
> We are having very strange printing problems all of a sudden
> trying to print from a Mac IIsi running 6.0.x.  When we try
> to print from MacWrite, Word, Draw, or Paint, we get the message,
> 
> 	"Print Monitor found that file xxxxx
> 	 was damaged and cannot be printed."
> 
> These files can be printed from PageMaker, no problem.  New
> files, old files, it makes no difference.  We can print only
> from PageMaker.  Norton Disk Doctor finds no problem with any
> of the files.
> 
> I have recently upgraded a IIfx on the network to System 7, and
> have copied all the System 7 printer stuff onto the IIsi,
> as directed.  It was shortly after this happened that the IIsi
> started with the crazy stuff above.  Restoring the printer drivers
> to those from 6.0.x doesn't help.
> 
> Help!
> 
> 
> -- 
> ---
>  Vincent Heuring     Dep't of Electrical & Computer Engineering
>  University of Colorado - Boulder  heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU

Did you upgrade the Print Monitor. We come across the same error with the
system 7.0 printer drivers and the old Print Monitor when trying to sort
out a problem with word printing under 7.0. It didn't fix our problem but
it did sort out the damaged file error.

Les.