Printer prints ERROR: syntaxerror OFFENDING COMMAND: true cvt fpgm x -glyf

A colleague has mentioned to me that he has seen an apparently intermittent problem when printing from 10.6.6 (but thinks he saw it some time before that) in which a PostScript error page is printed instead of his document. Mac OS X is up to date. The printed page shows:
ERROR: syntaxerror
OFFENDING COMMAND: true cvt fpgm x -glyf , ,head
STACK:
-mark-
/sfnts
The keywords suggest to me that this is a TrueType typeface problem.
Frustratingly, he says he can't remember what application he was printing from, but I suspect that it was Microsoft Word 2008, as that is what he uses for document preparation.
I found another forum topic posting describing this problem - http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9264701 - which is now closed and allegedly answered; the final advice was to run FontBook to verify the typefaces. I did this on the system in question, and only a few 'minor' errors were reported. Whether this somehow magically fixed the problem, I don't know.
The user updated Microsoft Office to the 2011 version at my suggestion, this being the only thing I can think might fix the problem. Since the problem was always intermittent, we're waiting to see if the problem reoccurs.
Does anyone know for sure what the cause and fix for the problem are?

pharmastat59 wrote:
Trouble printint to a Dell Laser MFP 1815dn.
Check if the Dell driver is PPC. If it is, and if you installed the first version of Apple's latest Security Update, then that's probably where the issue is, because it broke Rosetta, the software which runs PPC code under SL. Re-install the Sec Update (the problem is fixed in v1.1, which replaced the goofy version on Apple's servers) through Software Update or by downloading it again, then re-install the Dell driver, and try again.
Apple stuff is great, except for their casual disregard of their customers who want to use any product that is not Apple
I'm sorry, but that's non-sense. I'm no fan of Apple, but they're no better and no worse than any large corporation of this type. Mostly, they do things which make business sense as they see it -- which is exactly what you'd want, if you had serious money invested in Apple shares -- wouldn't you?
In this instance, it was up to Dell to release an Intel Mac driver for this printer/scanner, which is, what, 5 or 6 years old? If they didn't, it was probably because they decided it didn't make business sense for them to spend money on developing and testing one. Keep in mind that Dell and Apple and Microsoft and all the rest are in business to make money, not to support every single customer for ever and ever and a day.

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