[Digikam-users] Printing error with Digikam?

[Jeff Grant]

My first post on this list so I hope this hasn't been dealt with before. I've 
only fairly recently bought a digital camera - Nikon D70 with a Nikor  
18-70mm lens. Consequently I have only recently needed to print photographs. 
I'm getting an error which is puzzling. First I should say my printer is an 
HP PSC1610, I'm using HP inks and HP photo paper. On certain images - maybe 
one in 5 or 6 - I get a very thin white horizontal line which stretches 
across the entire image, rendering it useless. There seems no discernible 
pattern or consistency as to which images it will do this to, or as to where 
on the image this line will appear. It seems the printer every now and then, 
and only once in any one image, will fail to print some random  line. If I 
change format from JPEG to PNG or TIFF, the same error will be repeated on 
that image and in subsequent printings of that image the line will appear 
always in the same place. If however, I print the image out via The Gimp, 
Inkscape or Konquerer, there is no horizontal line. Assuming it has something 
to do with Digikam's processing of the image on the way to the printer, I've 
uninstalled and then re-installed DK, but to no effect. Ok -  I can at least 
print my images. But to have to go to another application to do so is a pain 
and that, in any case, doesn't solve what seems to be a Digikam problem. My 
distro by the way is PCLinuxOS which has been, in the 18months I've been 
using it, rock solid from the point of view of stability. Any thoughts on 
this would be greatly appreciated. 

Jeff in London UK
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jeff grant

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