Can't print complete page

[Georgeports]

I have a page with some text on the top of the page with 3 (approx.
2 inch) picture boxes below the text. I did a 'get picture' on the
3 picture boxes. They all show up on my moniter but, not in the
print out. Only the text and the top picture box shows, not the two
boxes below. Any ideas? Am using Quark 4.1 and winXP.
George Ports

 

[blueark]

Three things to try:

Select a picture box that's not printing, and go to Item > Modify... In the 'Box' tab, make sure 'Suppress Printout' is not selected.

Next, go to Utilities > Usage... and select the 'Pictures' tab. Make sure every item has a tick under the Print column.

Finally, in the Print dialog box, select the 'Options' tab, and make sure the Output drop down list is set to 'Normal'.

 

[Georgeports]

Hi blueark,
Have already tried what you spoke of and then I also went to:
1. item/modify....to see that "suppress printout" is not checked in "Box" or "Picture".
2. Went to: utilities/usuage/pictures....to see that "print" has a check mark and "statis" says, "OK".
3. The print drop down list is checked "Yes".
Am still missing the two lower pictures of the three.
4. Saved a copy.....deleted 1st picture of 3 and picture 2 printed. deleted 1st and 2nd picture and picture 3 printed. Wierd! This is driving me crazy.
Do you have any other ideas on what I might do to fix this problem?
Thanks so much for your help.
Sincerely,
George

 

[jimoblak]

You never said what type of pictures are being used. Do they contain complex data (ex: latest Illustrator EPS format) or are they too large to be processed by your printer (ex: 500 Mb TIFF)?

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[sharkboots]

Are your pics embedded in text or are they free floating picture boxes? I have noticed Quark sometimes messes up embedded pics if it tries to wrap them around to the next page because of 'keep with next' paragraph settings. Otherwise I agree with jimoblak that your printer doesn't have the memory to handle all those pics. Have you tried printing to Acrobat?

 

[Georgeports]

The type of pictures is an eps file of music notation (One staff...or line of music....very little memory involved). The file sizes are from 71kb to 220kb (not large).
They're not embedded in text and are free floating picture boxes, I believe.
The book is 50 pages long and all pages print fine except for the two pages in question. The other pages are simular in layout. I tried to save this bad page as a pdf and print it and it printed fine. Does that mean that the pictures are there? They show up on my moniter too, of course. Doesn't it seem to be with Quark rather than anything else?
George

 

[sharkboots]

If you can print to pdf OK it sounds like your printer must be struggling to process the eps files. You could try downloading the latest postscript printer driver from the Adobe website.

When you deleted the pics one by one and found only one pic per page would print, did you delete the entire picture box or just the picture within the box?

 

[Georgeports]

Not having the correct printer driver is what I felt from the beginning but was puzzled since other pages will print fine. A big problem is that I can't seem to find any of the right drivers for a HP1200 laser printer (has postScript capabilities)......for WinXP. HP doesn't have anything available for WinXP and the one I Got from Adobe is the one in question. I even tried a "Generic" driver and couldn't make any of the pages work.
I deleted only the picture within the box....not the entire picture box.
Sure hope I can get this fixed soon.
George

 

[sharkboots]

I have never experienced anything like this. Could those particular eps files have unusual settings of some sort (perhaps very specific colour settings) that are making them more difficult for your printer/driver to process? Have you tried inserting alternative pics into the offending page to see if they print OK? Or inserting the offending pics into a different page? Then at least you'd have a better idea whether the problem is with the pics or the page layout.

I feel your pain, this sounds like a very irritating problem.

 

[blueark]

When you say 'music notation', are you perhaps using a typeface to create the notes? Would opening the EPS file in Illustrator or Freehand and converting everything to outlines / curves help?