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Printed pages don't look the same since upgrade? kerning issue

We had a Windows 2000 Pro computer with Word 2000 printing to a Laserjet 5Si printer, printing a certain document without a problem. Once we got a new Windows XP computer, with Word 2003 (with serv pack 2 on XP & SP2 on Word), installed new HP driver for the 5Si, and printed the same document, the document doesn't not come out the same. Now it's subtle... there are a number of places on the document where the letters in words have much larger spaces in between them. I think it's called kerning - the space between letters. Could be wrong. But anyway, some the words look broken up. This is a legal document we're trying to print, so it's important that it looks good. At any rate, it works fine from other machines. Anyone have any idea why this would happen? I have tried all the printer drivers that HP has for this printer on Windows XP, PCL & PS...
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I will run down that theory and check it out. Thx.
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It was a matter of different versions of fonts. I say different versions because the document was all in Arial (11) and when I create a new document in Arial (size 11) font, it actually looks different, and prints looking the same. I think the WYSIWYG concept comes to bear here, and in the older application the screen display wasn't as good as what it is now. The old document created with an older version of Arial. I took the old document changed the entire thing to Courier, and copied the whole thing into a new document. I changed it to a different font first, so that there would be no mix up, or bringing of the old font into the new document (don't know if this was necessary, but better safe than...) Once I brought the Courier copy into the new document, I changed into Arial in the 2003 application, and printed. It was perfectly fine. Problem solved. Thanks for the heads up on that, Watzman.