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My Illustrator CS3 seems to have developed a strange problem. If I create a new RGB based document, a 'Web Document' or a 'Basic RGB Document' for example, and the print it, I only get a black and white print. If I create a CMYK based document it prints just fine. I have also tried creating a CMYK document and converting it to RGB and that prints fine too, but if I create an RGB document and convert to CMYK again I get a black and white print.
I have checked each of the colour profile and print dialog boxes to see if there are any differences bewteen a RGB sourced document and a CMYK sourced document but can't see anything obvious. This problem seems to have developed over the past couple of weeks as it used to print RGB without a problem.
Any help would be much appreciated as I've been going round in circles with this for hours. I should perhaps add that I'm no Illustrator expert!
Thanks.

I have found a solution to the problem by installing and using the PCL 6.0 driver instead of the PostScript driver (interestingly the PostScript driver is recommended by Xerox).
I am guessing that there must be a small error/discrepancy in the Xerox PostScript driver as it works fine in all other applications and indeed even in Illustrator with everything but RGB colour mode.
This also stacks up against the way the problem materialised as it seems that the error is only apparent in the latest driver, the previous driver (as shipped on CD with the printer) works correctly (it was updated by a Microsoft Update Patch originally).
It would be nice to raise this problem with Adobe and Xerox, but I wouldn't know where to start, so I'll stick with the PCL driver.

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