I'm using ConTeXt MKIV 2011.03.11 11:45 (I will try to upgrade first). When I try to print the document from Mac (Skim.app) to two different printers, I get pure junk on both of them (bold and italic fonts come out semi-ok, but regular doesn't).
I have the same setup here and palatino documents print fine. I do both: send the raw pdf to a cups server (let it deal with it) and convert the pdf to pcl prior to sending it to the printer.
If I print an older document or if I compile the same document with MKII, the document prints out fine on the same printer. The document also prints out fine when printing from Linux.
Do you have multiple versions of the TeXGyre Pagella installed? Maybe one of them is corrupt. You might want to try outline the fonts and strip them from the document: gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dNOCACHE -sOutputFile=nofont-Myfile.ps -q -dbatch -dNOPAUSE Myfile.pdf -c quit Optionally convert back to pdf with ps2pdf and try print that file. If ghostscript complains right away the problem is not your printer.
I'm using one network PostScript printer and one network printer that is most probably using PCL drivers and both generate junk. I'm using "palatino" typescript.
Can you print to CUPS-PDF? Or do you get rubbish as well?
(Can I send a document to PostScript printer on specific IP from a Mac without having to use Apple's libraries for handling PDF?)
Why not? PostScript printers should handle nofont-Myfile.ps (see above). Florian