[Digikam-devel] [Bug 150009] New: large print is sent to printer but is taking hours to print - when opening with gimp->print then no problems

[Martin Bantz]

------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.
         
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150009         
           Summary: large print is sent to printer but is taking hours to
                    print - when opening with gimp->print then no problems
           Product: digikam
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: digikam-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: martin.bantz smk dk


Version:           0.9.2-final (using KDE 3.5.7, compiled sources)
Compiler:          Target: i586-mandriva-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.18.8.tex5

We are experiencing long printtime when small and especially large images are printed. An ordinary image, 2-4MB in size, takes forever to print (30+ minutes if ever) - but the situation can be handled by rightclicking the image, open with Gimp and then print - this only takes 5-15 seconds with the same image.

We use Digikam on a Linuxnetwork in a learning center for young kids at our museum - and when they print with Digikam we have to delete the printqueue and reset the printer for each job.

We are using a HP5550n lan printer, using Jetdirect. Clients prints to a Linux printserver.

All other applications print fine - Gimp, OpenOffice.

We had a Linux support technician to look at the problem and he diagnosed the problem to be a digikam compiled printsystem that causes this delay,

All Linuxsystems are PCLinuxos2007 final - and all systems are fully updated (synaptics).

This is the only problem we have with DigiKam - and we must say that it is a brilliant photo handling program,

Regards,
Martin Bantz
IT chief-consultant
Royal Museum of Fine Art
Denmark