High definition photos printing from KDE

[James Richard Tyrer]

Tulear wrote:
> I tried to print (canon i865 with turboprint drivers) digital photos 
> (1600*1200 pixels) from KDE applications - mandrake 10.1 - (konqueror, 
> digkam, kuishow ...) but result is not so good even choosing the best 
> printer definition (4800 dpi) : colors are fine but I can see pixels on 
> 4"x6" or A4.  
>  
> It's not a driver problem : printing from Gimp 2.0 (with same driver) give me perfect 
> results, as good as from Windows. It looks like KDE applications have reduced the image 
> resolution ? Any idea about this curious pb ? 

The problem is that your are running the image through the Qt PostScript driver.

You should print the image directly.  It should not be converted to PostScript 
first.

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JRT