Suzanne said:
Some applications will synthesize a bold appearance, and you may even be
able to print it with specific printer settings, but for the most part, if
the font doesn't have a bold variant, regardless of what you see on the
screen, you won't get bold print. Beyond that, I'm hopelessly ignorant, so
I'm cross-posting this message to the word.printingfonts newsgroup, which
may result in a more authoritative answer.
If bold is displayed, whether it's from a bold variant or a MS Word's
horrendous artificial bold or italic, it should print just as seen on
the screen.
It's more likely a printing options problem, a printer driver problem,
or a printer memory problem (unlikely).
Since printer drivers and their available options are unique to each
printer and operating system, I can only offer some very general
approaches.
Some printers/drivers have an option to 'print truetype as graphics'.
If yours does, toggle the setting to see if it makes a difference. You
might also go to your printer's website and download the latest
printer driver for your operating system, if you don't already have
the latest version.
In your Word document, is it possibly set to printing in draft mode
(Tools/Options/Print)?
Have you tried printing the document as the first thing after booting
up? It's possible that your computer was running out of resources -
although this used to result in corrupted on-screen displays as well.
It might help if you'd specify what Operating System you're using,
what version of Word, what printer, the version of the printer driver
you have, and the names of the fonts that are exhibiting the problem,
along with the names of some fonts that seem to be working properly.
That's all that comes to mind immediately.
- Character
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope,
