Adobe CS2 / 10.4 Printing problem - Fonts

I have a studio with 30+ Macs (one of many ) using CS2 printing to Xerox RIP's or PS files Distilled.
The issue being parts of words not appearing on the prints.
We have said it's the fonts, we've said it's this and or that but the only thing I can put it down to is the underlying print system CUPS and caches and stuff I didn't need to worry about in system 9 !
My users output several thousand pages per week both to the printers and pdf.
So it's back to the OS or Adobe...
Yes I now clean the caches...
Is there ANYONE out there who looks after design/advertising studios with printout issues ?
Mitch
We didn't have a problem when I started them on 10.4.5, but we're now up to 10.4.8 ... Has something changed in CUPS filters from 10.4.5 to now ?

Hi Mitch,
We've had similar issues from InDesign to our Canon's using EFI (Fiery) print controllers. The issue was with the RIP and ps driver. We thought it was ID as it seemed to be the only app having the issue of some text dropping out when there was any background. Canon support felt it was Adobe and they in turn suggested the RIP. In the end a new version of firmware was loaded into the RIP and the problem stopped.
Anyway, I think that Xerox uses Fiery's also so check with X to see if they have a latter system for the RIP.
Paul

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