[Digikam-users] Printing error with Digikam?

[Gilles Caulier]

2007/7/10, Jeff Grant <kubin3 at aol.com>:
>
> On Monday 09 July 2007 18:22:57 digikam-users-request at kde.org wrote:
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:47:15 +0100
> > From: Jeff Grant <kubin3 at aol.com>
> > Subject: [Digikam-users] Printing error with Digikam?
> > To: digikam-users at kde.org
> > Message-ID: <200707091147.15522.kubin3 at aol.com>
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> >
> > 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
>
> Thank you guys for the reponses. As for saving the image in PDF - no
> problem -
> no white line.


Well, this is not a digiKam problem, because the image data genrated for
printing are the same between PDF export module and printers module. Both
use the same interface.

Are you tried to print with another printer, just to test ?

Gilles
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