When printing from Adobe Illustrator, if the printer prints unexpected multiple pages of garbled text, symbols, or blank pages instead of the image, this is because you are sending binary encoded data to a printer that is expecting ASCII from a TCP/IP or USB connection. You can use this option to render the pages as ASCII data before sending them to the printer, and bypassing the binary-encoded-related problems. Some print drivers do not support binary-encoded files.
1. Choose File/Print
2. Choose Encoding option from the pop-up menu:
3. Change Binary to ASCII format:
4. Click Print.
Special printing options must be selected to print your Pagemaker or Illustrator
document from a Macintosh computer. If you don't have the correct option selected,
your job may print multiple pages of nonsense characters, a short error message,
or it may not print at all.
1) Select File | Print | Options.
2) Change "Send binary image data" to "Send ASCII image data".
3) Print the document.
For more information, visit HP's page on:
Understanding
the difference between Binary and ASCII data format for the Macintosh
ESP
Images Fail to Print Correctly when connecting USB via Macintosh
Thanks to the University of California and the University of Wisconsin for these solutions.