[TriLUG] Picture Printing and HPLIP

[Ken M]

Ok I think I have made some headway.  That headway is getting gutenprint plugin through gimp to work correctly.  The main part of that is that the image needs to be resolution matched to the printer.  In my case 300 dpi.  Once that is done guten size and alignment works fine so now it is just a matter of tweaking the proper gamma/brightness/contrast settings to get a successful print.

Ken


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 08:44:12PM -0500, Don Jerman wrote:
> Also try turning off photo options - I had a similar problem setting up our
> Brother laser printer (so not hplip related) where all the "photo print"
> options came out dark and slightly off-center.  Re-installing cups and
> printer descriptors paying close attention to the screens solved the
> problem.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Ken M <ken at mack-z.com> wrote:
> >
> > Two extra solutions I have found to try, krokus and turbo print, the
> > latter being a free trial but reasonably priced in my mind if it actually
> > solves the problem. To be continued... Since I just about ran out of ink
> > with previous attempts.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On Dec 15, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Randy Barlow <randy at electronsweatshop.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 12/15/2014 02:38 PM, Ken M wrote:
> > >> Now I understand they have a much higher quality printer than I do, but
> > it seems that if the issue is adjusting my image to the printer because of
> > the presentation of my monitor that printing the same image on their
> > printer would lead to the same dark results.  At least that is my
> > uninformed opinion.
> > >
> > > Keep in mind that it's possible that they may have automatically
> > > adjusted the photo for their printer.
> > >
> > >> I think the weird thing I got going on here is there are three
> > different print solutions on this machine at not one of them is the whole
> > package.  Incidentally I tried using lpoption and lp commands and I can get
> > it to hold like that but the print out is not fitting on the page that way
> > either.
> > >
> > > It does sound like something unusual is happening, but sadly I cannot
> > > offer assistance.
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