Volpone
Zombie Hunter
My Mom has a computer she got oh...3-4 years ago. Understand, she lives in 1978. So the thing isn't connected to the Internet. It is a Compaq(?) that she bought at Radio Shack. Obviously the drivers are what came in the box.
The challenge is, she has a PDF she wanted to print out and when you open it the document appears fine onscreen, but when you print it, you get largely a blank page, with maybe a word or two, any graphics, and a couple stray " and British Pound signs and stuff.
Printer is a Compaq IJ650. Adobe is version 7.0.0. No idea what version of XP she has.
I pulled up a handful of PDFs and one or two print properly, but most of them are fucked up. For laughs I hooked my Eee to it and tried to configure a printer without the disk (no CD drive, no network). It could make the carriage move, but nothing else.
My gut impulse was printer drivers, but the newest ones on the Compaq site are from 2002, so they should be fine...or has she had the computer for longer than that? :S: Now that I think about it, she probably has.
Anyhow it is like doing brain surgery in boxing gloves and I may just print her out what she wants (I loaded that onto a USB drive). I guess I could bring her new copies of Adobe and the print drivers, but I don't suppose I can do anything about the OS without putting it on the network.
Ah well. Mostly she uses it to play Minesweeper. And to look up crossword questions on a World Book Encyclopedia CD.
The challenge is, she has a PDF she wanted to print out and when you open it the document appears fine onscreen, but when you print it, you get largely a blank page, with maybe a word or two, any graphics, and a couple stray " and British Pound signs and stuff.
Printer is a Compaq IJ650. Adobe is version 7.0.0. No idea what version of XP she has.
I pulled up a handful of PDFs and one or two print properly, but most of them are fucked up. For laughs I hooked my Eee to it and tried to configure a printer without the disk (no CD drive, no network). It could make the carriage move, but nothing else.
My gut impulse was printer drivers, but the newest ones on the Compaq site are from 2002, so they should be fine...or has she had the computer for longer than that? :S: Now that I think about it, she probably has.
Anyhow it is like doing brain surgery in boxing gloves and I may just print her out what she wants (I loaded that onto a USB drive). I guess I could bring her new copies of Adobe and the print drivers, but I don't suppose I can do anything about the OS without putting it on the network.
Ah well. Mostly she uses it to play Minesweeper. And to look up crossword questions on a World Book Encyclopedia CD.
