TyGuy Posted March 6, 2001 Share Posted March 6, 2001 I have a solution I am developing for my service program team. It involves numerous related fields showing up on a single layout. I am working on a G4 which is connected to Lexmark s2455 via an NT server. The problem is that some of the fields which should have data in them end up printing solid black. I have checked the fields in the Preview mode and they appear fine. I tried resetting the printers settings (various options are available). I tried trashing the Filemaker prefs. After readjusting the layout, I got one of the fields to actually print data (completely illogical fix?!?), but I can't get any of the other fields to print like they are supposed to. This doesn't affect all of the fields - one portal and several other fields similar to the black ones print perfectly fine. I don't have any problem printing other rather complex filemaker files which utilize related fields (local and network), portals, containers, etc, so I can't imagine its a printer problem. I'm just out of things to try at this point. Anyone have a similar experience and know what I should try? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiveOak Posted March 6, 2001 Share Posted March 6, 2001 Can you connect directly to the Lexmark with AppleTalk? If so, this would eliminate the NT variable in the equation. Also, sometimes objects on a layout become corrupted. I'd create a new layout with the same field parameters and try printing it as a test. -bd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TyGuy Posted March 6, 2001 Author Share Posted March 6, 2001 Unfortunately, the printer is in another part of the building and serves our entire administrative staff (who are on Win-doze machines). I did try to print the same file on my Canon BubbleJet and it printed fine, so the NT variable may be the whole problem. The difficulty is that I want the rest of my programming team, who are also on Macs and also a part of this network to be able to access the same datafiles. I could set up my computer as a host in this situation to give them access to my BubbleJet, but that seems extremely awkward. I could talk to my network administrator but unfortunately they know little about Filemaker and even less about Macs (!@#%). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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