QUARK PRINTING PROBLEMS.

[Randy1]

I am having a huge problem when printing from Quark 4.1 in Mac OS X's classic environment. I am trying to printout ps files to Acrobat Distiller to make pdfs.

What's happening is this... Everything will be going along just fine and then out of nowhere when I go to change the printer description: to acrobat distiller, the printer description: highlights and stays lit locking up quark and os 9. I have to do multiple restarts and trash the Quark preferences file and eventually quark starts up (until the next crash)

I notice sometimes when I restart Classic, the 'print monitor' icon shows up in the dock and again, everything locks up. I've reinstalled the os 9 software from the Additional Software & Apple Hardware Test CD. I also ran the Apple hardware test which found nothing. After that I had to rebuild the desktop to get the icons to show up properly.

Does anyone know of an answer, or has anyone had this problem? Thanks in advance.

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[morea]

Randy, I moved your thread into the Quark forum so it would attract the right people to respond. /DesktopModules/dotNetBB/emoticons/cheers.gif

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[PrintDriver]

Someone at the Quark forum mentioned having to choose the printer ppd from the classic side rather than the X side to get it to work.
Corrupt Fonts have been blamed.
Someone also mentioned trashing certain printer prefs instead of the Quark prefs but I don't remember.
I don't usually distill from 4 in Classic. Just print. No issues.

PD is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

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Another thing that may be the culprit is that the ppd isn't there, either moved or deleted... That has happened to me before

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[Randy1]

Thank you all for your responses. I reinstalled the printer software for all our printers and that seemed to do the trick.