HP 9800

[cadmando]

What is the signifgance of printing from "design layer" or "sheet layer"?? In my ever and ongoing effort to get prints from a HP 9800 DeskJet; I have been asked this question by tech support and have noticed in forum post that the esteemed Katie has asked the same question. I wonder if there is some mystical quality attributed to printing from one or the other of these layers? I have been trying to print from "design layer" and seem to have earned bad Karma. No joy.

Bert

OS 10.4

VW 12.5

[Guest]

Printing from a sheet layer adds a few other levels of settings than printing from a design layer, something important when diagnosing a printing issue.

What types of problems are you having while printing?

What version of OS 10.4 are you using?

[cadmando]

Katie,

Thanks for the answer regarding design and sheet layers. The problems a several. Sometimes I will send a job to printer and after an interminable wait nothing! So i look in the printer setup utility and there is no job qued - as if I did not send. Other t imes I send a job to print and some part of the sheet is cut off while ther is stii paper to print on.

I would try to print from a sheet layer buthave no idea of the best way to convert a design layer tpo a sheet layer. Tried creating a new sheet layer and copying & pasting a design layer to that---seems to be a bit more involved than that --some kind of scale thing.

Perhaps you could suggest a method.

Thanks

Bert

OS 10.4.10