Excel 2003 spreadsheet prinout disagrees with print preview

[Guest]

When printing an 18 col by 191 row spreadsheet on 11x17 paper, the resulting
printout has different data than the actual spreadsheet or the print preview.
Print preview seems to be in agreement with the spreadsheet. The actual
printout is accurate to about the middle of the first page, and then repeats
data from several previous rows and then repeats again. I thought maybe
having word wrap on text cells might cause a problem, so I turned it off only
to get a different permutation. I have certain rows highlighted - the
highlights appear with incorrect data in them so the background attribute
seems to be correctly assigned to the row but the data is not correctly
assigned to the row.

The workaround I have found is to port the spreadsheet to word and then
print it.

 

[Dave Peterson]

It sounds like it's a printer/printer driver problem.

Can you test against a different printer--or install a new version of that
printer's driver?

 

[Guest]

It seems likely a printer/printer driver problem...

HP LaserJet 5000 Series PCL 5e - all pages have issues
SHARP AR M550N PS - odd pages are bad, even seem OK
Lexmark Optra W810 PCL - looks OK on all pages

 

[Dave Peterson]

Use the Lexmark <bg>.

It seems likely a printer/printer driver problem...

HP LaserJet 5000 Series PCL 5e - all pages have issues
SHARP AR M550N PS - odd pages are bad, even seem OK
Lexmark Optra W810 PCL - looks OK on all pages

 

[Guest]

The Lexmark is 2 elevator rides away... however,

there is a Postscript driver for the HP Laserjet 5000 installed on our
machines by IS. It is slower, but it works correctly. There is also a PCL 6e
on the hp.com website, but I need IS permission to install it - it may
perhaps also work.

Thanks for your response!

marion

 

[Dave Peterson]

Maybe a midnight trip to the HP and Sharp sites to get new printer drivers would
be worth the trip???

Or get your boss involved to help with IT??????

The Lexmark is 2 elevator rides away... however,

there is a Postscript driver for the HP Laserjet 5000 installed on our
machines by IS. It is slower, but it works correctly. There is also a PCL 6e
on the hp.com website, but I need IS permission to install it - it may
perhaps also work.

Thanks for your response!

marion