I've had this scrunched text difficulty just today. I am using a Pentium 933 with VW 9.0.1. I found that it happened when I set the number of prints to two (2). When I tried a single print after that, it printed fine. Am using an HP 450C with the latest driver. I can't get patterns to print other than black blocks either. Have tried the pattern scale option in the print dialog as well. Hope a solution is found soon.