Printer problem in Vista

I have a Brother HL1230 laser printer connected to a pc in my home network
with XP home. I also have a desktop in an other room using Vista Home
Premium which is connected to the network wireless. I installed the network
printer from my Vista-pc and the installation went well and I got a perfect
test page on the printer. But after this I only get messed up printouts.
Pictures comes out fine, but all the text comes as squares. This happens in
both MS Word and Internet Explorer.

I have the latest driver for my printer (issued in 2002 !).

Can anyone help me fix this?

"IronDuke" <jnesje@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a Brother HL1230 laser printer connected to a pc in my home network
>with XP home. I also have a desktop in an other room using Vista Home
>Premium which is connected to the network wireless. I installed the network
>printer from my Vista-pc and the installation went well and I got a perfect
>test page on the printer. But after this I only get messed up printouts.
>Pictures comes out fine, but all the text comes as squares. This happens in
>both MS Word and Internet Explorer.
>
> I have the latest driver for my printer (issued in 2002 !).
>
> Can anyone help me fix this?

Try removing the printer [via Control Panel > Printers > (right-click
printer > delete), and then re-installing it, making sure the correct
drivers are installed

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Jon

Those drivers will likely not work in Vista, you need to check with Brother
for updated drivers.

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"IronDuke" <jnesje@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:E83FEB0F-1B2E-4AE2-8226-A50D3461117C@microsoft.com...
>I have a Brother HL1230 laser printer connected to a pc in my home network
>with XP home. I also have a desktop in an other room using Vista Home
>Premium which is connected to the network wireless. I installed the network
>printer from my Vista-pc and the installation went well and I got a perfect
>test page on the printer. But after this I only get messed up printouts.
>Pictures comes out fine, but all the text comes as squares. This happens in
>both MS Word and Internet Explorer.
>
> I have the latest driver for my printer (issued in 2002 !).
>
> Can anyone help me fix this?