- Knowledge Base
- Devices, Printing & Scanning
- Printing
- Troubleshooting Printing
How to fix "Stopped — Filter Failed" and "Unable to convert PostScript file" errors when printing PDFs on a Bowdoin-issued Mac. These errors typically appear after a macOS upgrade and are resolved by resetting the printing system and reinstalling printers using Print Deploy. Administrator access is required.
- Knowledge Base
- Devices, Printing & Scanning
- Printing
- Troubleshooting Printing
How to fix a PDF that prints only an error page or garbled output instead of the actual document. This is usually caused by corrupt or modified PDF data, often from Adobe Acrobat, and is resolved by re-exporting the PDF through macOS Preview before printing.