* Helen [04-04-13 11:47]:

Printing a picture in landscape mode, with GIMP.

Picture has lakes, sky, trees, rooftops, mountains, etc.

In Gimp, some of the dark trees, and the dark areas of shrubbery around a path, have big open white blotches. After doing everything I know to do in GIMP, I opened OOo, inserted the pictures into a frame, and printed the picture.
The big white spots are missing, and the picture actually looks pretty good. This tells me (I think) that the problem is not the printer (Epson Styus 1400) or the picture (I flattened it, thinking maybe something about the layers might cause that problem.) In Gimp 2.6, Suse 12, I'm setting Image Quality high, Color Precision best, Print Quality high.
Oh, and these are not random white spots. Each print (wasting lots of ink and paper here) has the big white spots in the same places -- the same trees, the same shrubbery, same shapes to the white blotches. Any ideas?

Not w/o seeing the image, but please do not post it to the list. Provide a place for viewing the image.

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On 04/04/2013 12:32 PM, Helen wrote:

Patrick, ok I've done that now. It is here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ettervor/8618757171/in/photostream All the dark trees/shrubs have big white blotches on the print. Of course, the problem is only on the print, not on the digital file. But as I said, when I print it via odt (OO0 text document) it prints ok. (But I want gallery quality, so can't just say, well, ok then, use OO.)

If it prints OK via Open Office, there's probably nothing wrong with the image. I would be more likely to blame some disconnect in communication between the GIMP and the printer.

In the long run it might pay to take a close look at the installed print drivers, and any printer interface software that may be installed. But just for immediate results, I would try some work-arounds. Export the image as (plain vanilla) TIFF and/or BMP, then:

-- Check and see if the printer's user interface includes a command to print photos. If it does, print the TIFF and/or BMP from there and see what happens.

-- If the printer does not have the ability to print image files "all by itself," try using Irfanview to print the TIFF and/or BMP.

http://www.irfanview.com/

IMO Irfanview rocks - Microsoft's 'innovations' in image browsing & viewing are weak imitations of Irfanview.

-- If that don't work, try printing the same TIFF or BMP on a whole other computer and printer. (If another printer is not available, your local copy shop has one...)

:o)

Steve

On 04/04/2013 08:12 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

http://www.irfanview.com/

IMO Irfanview rocks - Microsoft's 'innovations' in image browsing & viewing are weak imitations of Irfanview.

Or, from our Well Duh department, on Linux try printing from your desktop's native photo browser; with any luck you will be able to configure page size, image size and resolution there.

:o)

Steve

On 05-04-13 02:23, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 04/04/2013 08:12 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

http://www.irfanview.com/

IMO Irfanview rocks - Microsoft's 'innovations' in image browsing & viewing are weak imitations of Irfanview.

Or, from our Well Duh department, on Linux try printing from your desktop's native photo browser; with any luck you will be able to configure page size, image size and resolution there.

:o)

Steve

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Install the commercial printerdriver Turboprint from Zedonet. This solved for me the same problem.

Siem Korteweg.

* s.kortenweg [04-05-13 04:41]:

On 05-04-13 02:23, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 04/04/2013 08:12 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

http://www.irfanview.com/

IMO Irfanview rocks - Microsoft's 'innovations' in image browsing & viewing are weak imitations of Irfanview.

Or, from our Well Duh department, on Linux try printing from your desktop's native photo browser; with any luck you will be able to configure page size, image size and resolution there.

Or, if as the OP stated the photo prints correctly from {Open}LibreOffice, why would the print driver by back, especially to the point of paying for another driver. Could just as well send me the money for what it would accomplish.

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* Patrick Shanahan [04-05-13 07:57]:

* s.kortenweg [04-05-13 04:41]:

On 05-04-13 02:23, Steve Kinney wrote:

On 04/04/2013 08:12 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:

http://www.irfanview.com/

IMO Irfanview rocks - Microsoft's 'innovations' in image browsing & viewing are weak imitations of Irfanview.

Or, from our Well Duh department, on Linux try printing from your desktop's native photo browser; with any luck you will be able to configure page size, image size and resolution there.

Or, if as the OP stated the photo prints correctly from {Open}LibreOffice, why would the print driver by back, especially to the point of paying for

s/b... print driver s/by/be s/back/bad

another driver. Could just as well send me the money for what it would accomplish.

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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:12:33 -0400 From: admin@pilobilus.net
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Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP print

If it prints OK via Open Office, there's probably nothing wrong with the image. I would be more likely to blame some disconnect in communication between the GIMP and the printer.

Oh there are definitely SOME disconnects between GIMP and printing ... I know that when I try to print things from my GIMP my problem is not with the output print quality but that GIMP can't get its on-page positioning correct at all.

But that's a different topic. :)

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Oh there are definitely SOME disconnects between GIMP and printing ... I know that when I try to print things from my GIMP my problem is not with the output print quality but that GIMP can't get its on-page positioning correct at all.

But that's a different topic. :)

-- Stratadrake strata_ranger@hotmail.com
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Numbers may not lie, but neither do they tell the whole truth. =

I use Linux and to print I've installed CUPS + Gutenprint. When I want to print something in Gimp I go to "File > Print with gutenprint. Excellent results,complete control over color contrast etc. Gerard.