Category: printing
Help – my pdf file is printing a blank page.
If you get a protected pdf file, it’s possible that ‘printing’ is turned off. If you try to print this page the printer will print our a blank page with no error! If you have the password to the document you can turn printing back on. This can happen if a bank or other institution…
How to fix your Fuji Xerox Printer in Monterey 12.3.1
I just upgraded to OSX Montery 12.3.1 and it broke my printer. The printer just comes up with an error saying ‘Filter Failed.’ I downloaded the new Fuji Xerox drivers but that did not fix it. I reset the printing system (Apple’s suggested fix) but that did not fix it either. In the end I…
Printing to a Fiji Xerox Docucentre with a Silicon M1 Macbook Pro.
My 10 year old DocuCentre-V stopped working when I upgraded to the new silicon M1 MacBook Pro. It was giving a ‘Failed’ error in the printer message window. To resolve this I needed to download the Fuji Xerox Print Driver for Mac OS X Installer and re-install the drivers again. (I used migration assistant to…
Printing to a Fuji Xerox printer using Catalina
Most new printers have PostScript built-in although if you are trying to print to an older printer or you are in a workplace with lots of PCs they may not have built-in postscript. If this is the case the default drivers in OSX will not work. Here’s how I got my a non Postscript Fuji…
Apple printing bug costing users thousands of dollars.
A bug in Apple’s OS X printing software could see consumers unknowingly pay thousands of dollars extra in printing bills. The bug causes some black and white documents to be billed as colour documents by an attached printer. Businesses on a commercial printing plan will be potentially paying thousands of dollars extra in printing bills.…
How to add ‘Booklet’ to the OS X Print menu
Is ‘Create Booklet’ broken in Mojave?
The “Create Booklet” PDF action stopped working when Mojave was released. It seems to be to do with Apple requiring an increased level of application signing. What this means is that the old version of Create Booklet (that was free) that I wrote about here no longer works. You need to download the new version…
How to reverse the fold direction on a Fuji Xerox printer
I have a Fuji Xerox Apeosport IV (Docucentre) printer with a stapler/booklet folder. I had an A5 booklet that I was printing but the fold was the wrong way so that the inside of the booklet was on the outside. Thankfully there is a little setting from the print dialog box under ‘Printer Features.’ If…
How to stop paper curling in your laser printer – printing with the grain.
I have a Fuji – Xerox A3 printer that can staple and fold, but sometimes the paper curls up and so the printer doesn’t staple properly. I just discovered this fantastic tip from the Fuji Xerox website which has solved my problem so I thought I’d pass it on. Paper should be fed with the…
Resetting a drum cartridge in a printer
Many printer manufacturers have a built in counter on the drum cartridge in their laster printers. This is so that the drum cartridge will get replaced at a regular interval and remain in good condition. The drum can in many cases continue to function a long time after the counter has expired. It is possible…
How to create a Google cloud printer.
It can be a bit of a pain trying to print from you iOS devices or an Android phone. Apple have helped by introducing Airprint, but not all printers support Airprint so in some ways this has made the problem worse. Yet again Google have come to the rescue. Google allow you to set up any of…
How to print across multiple pages or make a banner in OSX
You may remember back in the day of Macintosh SE, System 6, ImageWriter, Claris Works and so on that you could print across several pages on a Macintosh and easily make a banner. That beautiful feature has been completely missing since OS X was introduced in 2001. There is a way to print across multiple pages.…
How to print two separate PDF files back to back
Quite often I receive a document to print double sided but I receive it as two single PDF files. Other times I have two documents that came from two different applications (for example one from pages and one from numbers) and I want to print them back-to-back on one piece of paper using my double…
Printing to a NON postscript Fuji Xerox printer
I have a Docucentre C4350 Fuji Xerox printer which does not have postscript installed. The normal drivers from Fuji assume you have Postscript installed. Here’s how to get the non-postscript printer going.
How to copy a font
How to copy fonts between Mac computers eg to make the fonts available to Keynote on your laptop.
How to save toner when printing black on a colour printer.
Black is not the blackest black, there are different blacks, and you need to understand them if you want to get the best out of your printer.
How to Air Print to a non-airprint printer from your iPad or iPhone
Apple has introduced a ‘print’ button onto iPads, iPhones and iPods to allow you to print directly to a printer from your iOS device. Unfortunately  you need a special AirPrint enabled printer.
How to match the colours on your monitor to your printer.
If you have ever designed a colour document on your computer and then printed it out on your inkjet or laser printer you may have noticed that the colours come out slightly different.
What to do about “The optical photoconductor needs to be replaced” printer error
There appears to be a compatibility issue with Mac OSX lion and lots of printers. Â