Printing weird characters

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the print head of our cartridge is damaged 

you have the wrong drivers for the printer. You maybe getting weird characters also. When you turn it off it clears the memory buffer (print job). I assume it seft tet OK. Delete and reload drivers

It might be a print driver problem. I think there several different drivers. Go to Ricoh-usa.com and download all the drivers for the operating system you are using and try them. If there is a rpcs driver that might be your best bet.

First Thing I would do is check peachtree for any critical updates to the program.

It sounds as if there are some unprintable characters somehow stored in one of the fields that print out, causing the printer to think it has received a "page eject" command. Is it too much trouble to re-create the record (ie. delete and re-create) for this bill? Odds are this will solve the problem.

I had this problem. It was caused by a badly-fitting parallel printer cable. I unplugged the cable at both ends, blew out the dust and re-plugged it. It then worked fine.

If that does not work for you, try cleaning the contacts with electrical contact cleaner. Clean both cable ends, clean the printer socket and clean the PC socket.

Alternatively buy a replacement cable.

Parallel/centronics cables and connectors are far more delicate than USB cables.

you'll need the fonts..go to support.dell.com and see what they can offer.

model of the printer ? sound like a
heating device problem.

check if the file is not currupted.

and the printer is set for RAW printing, probably dont have enough memory, to print the document

try printing like only 10 pages at a time to see if the last 10 print

if it does might want to invest some money in some printer memory



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Hi Keren,

1) Are you sure it is the printer, not the software application ?

Try printing a single "Hello World" message from "Notepad"

If there is no blank page at the end of it, the problem is in
the specific software app: Office, Word, Excel, etc...


2) What application are you printing from?

a) Check the page and print setup.

b) Make sure the application's "page size" and the printer's
paper size are consistent. Pay special attention to
metric paper sizes vs English:

E.g. A4 vs Letter

If the page with margins is bigger than the paper, it will
generate a new page, even though there are no visible
characters on it.

c) Check the print margins within the page setup:
In MS-Office: File ---> Page Setup --->

d) Add a single character to the very bottom of your
document, and see if it wraps around onto the last page.

Microsoft office applications are notorious for wrapping
the last PARAGRAPH character onto the next page if
it does not quite fit onto the paper.

e) if you are using MS WinWord, go into options and set it
to display all special characters:

Check to make sure that there are no page-breaks at
the end of the document.

Also look for extra paragraph marks/ carriage returns,
and check the format settings on the last paragraph
mark in the document:

Page brake before...
Keep lines together ....
Widow and orphan control ...

which can cause the last paragraph mark to generate a
new page. If the last paragraph mark is not formatted
the way you want it, make sure that you save the
TEMPLATE after you change it, since this is the
DEFAULT setting for all new documents.

Finally it is also possible for Windows applications to look
different on the screen than the final print due to small
(but cumulative) True Type Font (TTF) computation erros,
such that a 10 page document on the screen can actually
page-split in weird places printing as 11 pages.

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I have the identical model of printer, and it does NOT seem
to have any settings for printing banners or adding separator
pages, at least not in my printer driver, but this is NOT to say
that the applications you are using are not causing this
problem.

I hope this gets you started.

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Martin

Current printers do not have a 'built-in' font or character set. The printers only print what they are told to print by the application from which they are printing. What program are you printing from? Does it do this with all programs? Check printing from very basic programs like Notepad or Wordpad (print documents that are at least a couple of pages long). If the printer prints correctly from there, you may need to contact the publisher of the program that is giving you the weird printing.