Hewlett Packard (HP) Laser and Ink-Jet Printer drivers are not perfect

The Microsoft web site reports over 100 defects in all HP printer drivers. Some listed problems include:

• Changes fonts after first page prints
• B/W printers print color fonts as black (not grey)
• Failure to print various forms of pictures
• Failure to print various froms of graphics
• Driver cannot remember paper size setting
• Text (fonts) fail to print when covered by graphics
• HP will not print anything

Possible fix for HP laser printers not printing text in a gray scale when color text is desired...

On the Printer Properties, select the FONTS tab and select the option "Download True Type Fonts as Bitmaps.

Cures to all other HP print problems...

We have found that the default HP printer settings do not work with many software products. The HP printer setup dialogs may vary.

On one type of HP Print Setup dialog, you need to make the following change:

• On your print setup screen, select Properties
• Select the Print Quality tab
• Select the Manual Setting
• Set the Graphics Mode to HP-GL/2
• Try printing with this new setting

On another type of HP Print Setup dialog, one or more of these changes may fix the problem:

From the FONTS tab, select the "Print True Type as Graphics" option AND/OR

From the GRAPHICS tab, try the "Use Raster Graphics" option.

If, after fiddling with all the above, nothing works, PLEASE visit the HP web site and make sure you have the latest version Printer Driver for your printer AND for your operating system. (HP Printer Drivers can be different for different versions of Windows.)