Macbook and HP Laserjet 4350dtn printing garbage

[dionysaki]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to print to an HP Laserjet 4350dtn using my Macbook running Leopard with the most up-to-date software. I have downloaded the most current drivers from HP and installed them. The weird thing about that part is that HP's site shows that is version 7.8, but even after I install this onto my machine, it looks like the only driver that the Print and Fax app will only use a 4.something driver. It won't update to the 7.8 driver for some odd reason.

I talked to our IT people and they said the printer is set up using IP printing and that AppleTalk is also enabled. I have tried setting the damned thing up using both LPD and IP printing, but to no avail. I've tried printing both Word and pdf documents, and this is the output I get:

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%APL_DSC_Encoding: UTF8
%APLProducer: (Version 10.5.4 (Build 9E17)

I'd love to hear what anyone thinks might be the issue. This sucks that I'm not able to print wirelessly while everyone else is. I should mention that another Macbook user is having the same issues.

Thanks so much!
Dio K.

 

[tomoncourt]

Any luck?

I am having the same problem. I can print above-described garbage to a Rico Aficio 1013 and have downloaded the correct driver, but can't print anything pretty. Any luck?

 

[suzuru]

PS Option needed

Sounds like your printer has no PostScript which is optional. If you send print jobs from PC using PCL driver you won't see the problem. There are thousands threads regarding this issue. You can search for it or go to https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/553027/
to get the idea. Good luck!