OSX prints yellow backround on everything?

ti fighterti fighter
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
So we have two ti books with Jag on them at work. Whenever we print from mail, entourage, word, PP, text edit, whatever (except photoshop, and illustrator, i think) It puts a cream yellow background under the text. Its weird cuz it affects all the programs, unless it has to do with the printer, HP Colorlaserjet 4550N. When i print to the B&W HP it prints fine, of course it wouldn't be yellow it would look gray which it doesn't. I dont remember having this problem at home on jag with an epson. Any help? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />



oh and I didn't install any drivers im using the ones that came with Jag.



thanks

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    I know very little about printers interacting with the OS, but in this case it sounds like the printer might be off, like, it thinks that the pastey yellow color is pure white.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    colby2000colby2000 Posts: 91member
    I'd be surprised if it were the printer...I have a PBG4 with Jag and printing to an LJ4500 over IP does almost the same thing, only the yellow tint shows up on images. It works fine from OS9 and Windows machines. I'm guessing it's something with the color profile, but I haven't gotten it fixed yet.

    It may not help, but you're not the only one with this problem.

    <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
  • Reply 3 of 5
    ti fighterti fighter Posts: 863member
    ok it doesnt do it in photoshop, only in text based apps that i mentioned above. Someone must know why
  • Reply 4 of 5
    noseynosey Posts: 307member
    Check your colorsync settings, and turn off any custom ones you may have set for a test. In particular be aware of the hotpoint settings you might have turned on.



    Try selecting the monitor by the make and model, if you can, or see if there are drivers available for that particular model.



    As a test, grab a copy of the screen and import it into one of the programs which work. See if the white is a different color (Use the information tool/box to confirm)



    I had a problem when I updated to OS X where the colors went to hell. When I bought a new monitor they worked again... after I chose the new monitor profile...



    go figure.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    ti fighterti fighter Posts: 863member
    its a powerbook so no monitor, thanks for your reply though



    my colorsync settings are all set to generic and the cmms is set automatic



    [ 11-20-2002: Message edited by: Ti Fighter ]



    also if i run word 98 in classic and print it prints fine, so it has something to do with osx



    [ 11-20-2002: Message edited by: Ti Fighter ]</p>
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