Mac printing problems

I printed from my mac just fine and then I went to print a spreadsheet and the printer looks and sounds like its printing but there is nothing there. I tried different things and have established that my printers are fine. The problem seems to be on the mac.
can anyone advise please
thx

mollymoo2010 wrote:
I have just triedprinting an email. All I get on the printed sheet is
From:
Subject:
Date:
To:
Cc:
Nothing else. As both printers are doing identical prints I guess it is something the Mac is telling them to do
Or not.
Assuming your ink cartridges are in the correct order/positions, and you haven't select white as a font colour, this is a bit of a mystery.
But as it prints something, it is a printer driver/printer problem, or the cables they are connected by.

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