Newbies sweetah Posted September 30, 2003 Newbies Share Posted September 30, 2003 can anyone help please? we run a small office with a few macs all on OS 10.2.6 which are networked together and share an epson stylus colour 740 printer. each mac will happily print from any application other than filemaker pro 6.0.v4. when printing from FMP nothing happens and print centre shows no job. any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ernst Posted September 30, 2003 Share Posted September 30, 2003 Do you print from the Filemenu, or is it a scripted print? Ernst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies sweetah Posted October 1, 2003 Author Newbies Share Posted October 1, 2003 i,m trying to print from file menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted October 1, 2003 Share Posted October 1, 2003 Hi Sweetah: In the File --> Print menu dialog, select "Copies & Pages" and pull down to "FileMaker Pro" and check the settings there. Also, check the Page Setup settings. Otherwise, make sure you've got a record present (i.e., you're not showing "Found: 0".) Do you see the printer in the print dialog? If you see the printer then the issue should be one of the above areas. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbies sweetah Posted October 2, 2003 Author Newbies Share Posted October 2, 2003 thanks for your ideas Stanley. yes i can see the printer in the dialogue box and i have checked the other things you suggest and all seems to be in order except it still won't print!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Now that's just strange. Let's see... I'll take a few more stabs at it. If you go into Preview mode, do you see data (or anything) on your page? If you keep the Print Center visible, do you see the job going to the queue at all? Have you tried to print a script from FMP? If that works, then it's a layout issue. If not, it's something bizarre happening in FMP, interfering with the entire printing process. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stanley Posted October 2, 2003 Share Posted October 2, 2003 Aha! I just read your original post again, and perhaps this is it. If the shared printer is on a TCP/IP connection, then try setting FileMaker to TCP/IP networking in Preferences. It defaults to AppleTalk, so maybe that's the fault. -Stanley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianrich Posted October 3, 2003 Share Posted October 3, 2003 Have you obtained the latest printer drivers from EPSON http://www.epson.co.uk/support/download/ Although Epson drivers shipped with OSX 10.2, you might find that these work better - install them on all the Macs. FWIW, I have had no end of trouble with Filemaker 6 and Epson printers on both Mac and PC. Whilst I can usually depend on a page setup/print script correctly orienting the page and printing current or browsed on most printers, it simply doesn't seem to work reliably when you have an Epson printer attached. Still searching for a fix :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve T. Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 Howdy! I believe Mac OS X has the ability to create PDF's for anything that can be printed although I have never really used X w/inkjets. Can you make a PDF okay? Can you print the PDF? --ST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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