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Firefox prints gibberish to printer

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ajurekic
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When I print anything from Firefox 6.0 I get gibberish on the printer (Toshiba e-Studio 35 Laser printer). It prints fine with IE.

When I print anything from Firefox 6.0 I get gibberish on the printer (Toshiba e-Studio 35 Laser printer). It prints fine with IE.

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Probably related to this outstanding Bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454532

(Please don't comment in that Bug report unless you can provide a patch to fix the problem. Vote for the Bug instead.)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Based upon this comment - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454532#c117 - it looks like a fix might be coming in Firefox 8.0.

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the-edmeister
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Chosen Solution

Probably related to this outstanding Bug.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454532

(Please don't comment in that Bug report unless you can provide a patch to fix the problem. Vote for the Bug instead.)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Based upon this comment - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454532#c117 - it looks like a fix might be coming in Firefox 8.0.

ajurekic
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Strange that a bug reported in 2008 still has not been fixed. I guess I just have to use IE when printing.