Fonts showing properly in Pages & Preview/PDF on screen, but prints incorrectly with HP printer

I know there are a plethora of posts out there about similar issues but they all seem to be old, and died without a reasonable resolution.


I am printing a document that i created in Pages using a custom font verified by Font book.

Mac OS Sonoma 14.6.1

Macbook Pro Apple M3

Pages 14.3

Preview 11.0

Printer HP Officejet 8020 pro


In Pages the document looks like this, which is corret. All letters are aligned at the bottom etc...


When i do Export > PDF from pages the resulting PDF in preview looks the same, again correct:

When I do print > pdf from Pages it also looks the same.


Heres where the problem starts:


When i actually execute a print job, from Pages or from the PDF in preview, it looks like this, where the capital C's & L's & M's appear to be lowered, and the lower case A is lowered as well.


Why can't I print exactly what i see on the screen? When i convert the PDF to a PNG or TIFF it prints correctly. But this is a big document, and i can't seem to convert (in preview) more than the first page/one page at a time to these image formats.


Thank you all!



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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Feb 3, 2025 5:27 AM

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Feb 3, 2025 6:19 AM in response to bmellman

I can't tell you exactly what's going wrong. It's definitely related to the font itself. The font should be embedded inside the PDF. The printer will then have the font and can print it. But your printer isn't working with that font. Your printer only supports the HP PCL3 language. You'll need to find a different font, or the same font with a different format, and try that.

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