Chad,

Can you print _anything_ from Gimp?

If you can print a very tiny image, maybe it is a printer memory problem.

Sorry, I can't help further. I don't have Vista and I am sitting here happily emailing from Ubuntu. ;-)

I will have to get Vista soon (for certain software we will be required to use), but I will run that under Vmware on the Ubuntu (as I do with XP, W2K, Win95, and RedHat Linux, and Unixware!).

Jay

On 10/14/2010 03:41 PM, ChadBJX wrote:

Hi,
I'm new to Gimp and love it. I'm using version 2.6.10 on a laptop running Win Vista. But I do have a problem (besides using Windows - I prefer Ubuntu but stuck with Windows here). I just bought a Kodak ESP 3250 printer. I can't get the printer to print from Gimp, I get a message that the printer isn't found. I can Scan from it (it's a printer/scanner)using Gimp. I can also print with the printer using WordPad (Windows text editor) and can print from an old copy of Paint Shop Pro (vr. 7) Also, when I try to print from Gimp it seems to bog down or something. Much later, when shutting down the printer, I did get a message asking if I was sure I wanted to cancel printing the graphic I was trying to print in Gimp.

Now I COULD keep editing in Gimp, saving as a file compatible to Paint Shop Pro, opening the graphic with Paint Shop and printing from there but that's kind of a pain.

Any ideas, suggestions would be very helpful, other than trashing Windows (which isn't an option since I don't own this computer, I just have to work with it). Kodak's out-sourced support was NO help at all.

Thanks, Chad

I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try to print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro prints any other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu gets the 2,6.10 with the cairo software that doesn't work. Have I answered my own question?

Geoffrey

Chad,

Can you print _anything_ from Gimp?

If you can print a very tiny image, maybe it is a printer memory problem.

Sorry, I can't help further. I don't have Vista and I am sitting here happily emailing from Ubuntu. ;-)

I will have to get Vista soon (for certain software we will be required to use), but I will run that under Vmware on the Ubuntu (as I do with XP, W2K, Win95, and RedHat Linux, and Unixware!).

Jay

Hi Jay,
Thanks for the idea. I was trying to print a fairly large graphic file size. Will try a small simple graphic and will also try saving as a .jpg instead of Gimp's default format and see if that works for me. I'll let you know but it may be a few days until I can get back to the forum to let you know. Thanks again.
I love forums -- You usually get the best answers there. :) Chad

On 10/31/2010 05:11 PM, geoffrey wrote:

I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try to print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro prints any other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu gets the 2,6.10 with the cairo software that doesn't work. Have I answered my own question?

Geoffrey

Gimp 2.6.11 addresses this printing issue:

http://developer.gimp.org/NEWS-2.6

Peace...

Tom

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:11 +0100, geoffrey wrote:

I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try to print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro prints any other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu gets the 2,6.10
with the cairo software that doesn't work. Have I answered my own question?

Indeed. Please file a bug-report at Ubuntu. We explicitly released a fixed version (2.6.11) before the Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu maintainers should do their users a favor and update to that release.

Sven

Indeed. Please file a bug-report at Ubuntu. We explicitly released a fixed version (2.6.11) before the Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu maintainers should do their users a favor and update to that release.

Seems that this has been reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/671229

Maybe Chad can mark this bug as affecting him.

On 11/05/2010 03:11 PM, redforce wrote:

Indeed. Please file a bug-report at Ubuntu. We explicitly released a fixed version (2.6.11) before the Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu maintainers should do their users a favor and update to that release.

Seems that this has been reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gimp/+bug/671229

Maybe Chad can mark this bug as affecting him.

I just did as well! :)

Peace...

Tom

I just did as well! :)

Got the new packages today by automatic update, I think the bug has been fixed (by patching).