[Digikam-users] Printing Problem ?

[Sherwood Botsford]

I can the following as possibilities:

1.  Your printer has a buffering issue, and can't create a 13 x 19
image at full resolution.  Does your printer have installable memory?
2.  Your printer has a hardware problem.
3.  Your print spool system has a different idea of how much memory
than your printer actually has.
4.  There is a flaw in the digikam.
5.  There is a flaw in the printer driver.

Note that if you have your OS to do automatic updates, you may NOT
have the same setup you used to have.

Thoughts for debugging.

1.  How big is a print file.  Set your print spool to accept jobs, but
not print them, or allow print, but don't delete. [Does this happen
with particular sizes of file?]
2.  If you print the same image from a different program do you have
the same problem?  How big is its print file?  Which programs work?
[Do other programs do a resolution reduction before sending it to the
printer.]
3.  If you print an image that is not full width, but is full length
do you have a problem, e.g. a 4" x 19" image
4.  Does the noise start at the margin, or is there a partial line of noise?
5.  What is the model and version number of your printer.  Often there
is a print test page function from the printer itself which includes
all this stuff.
6.  If you print an image that is at a lower resolution but the same
page size do you have a problem?
7.  If you lie  and tell it that you have an oddball paper size, such
as 13 x 18.5 do you still have a problem. (Is there a lookup table
inside that
has a bad entry for 13x19 specifically)
8.  How much free space is there on the print spool disk?  I tore my
hair out for a day once because people could print 3 page memos, but
not 10 page reports.
Turned out that the print spool was on the same partition as /var/log
and logs had nearly filled up the disk.  Small jobs could be printed
and deleted, Larger
ones could not spool to disk and would barf.)


On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:42 PM, davidvincentjones <davidvj at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> An update to my Printing situation:
>
> I have now been using/trying the "Print Wizard" and find that the problem
> with large images remains.
> When I print a typical 'letter size' everything is OK but as soon as I try
> to print the 13" x 19" so called Super-B then the last part of the image is
> overlaid with 'noise'.
>
> Another comment about the Wizard: Between prints all of my print settings
> are lost. It would be nice if I did not have to re-set even which printer I
> am using or the margin widths.
>
> Another trial with the second print wizard for multiple images on one sheet.
> I tried to use this for a contact sheet but could not get the file names to
> print with the images.
>
> A further thought: It would be nice if I could put a print icon on the main
> task bar.
>
> I am still using Ubuntu Intrepid with release 0.11.0
>
> David
>
>
> Bugzilla from caulier.gilles at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> 2009/4/10 davidvincentjones <davidvj at verizon.net>:
>>>
>>> I have always used the image editor ...
>>
>> It use Qt printing interface.
>>
>>  should I be using the print-wizard?
>>
>> why not. to compare.
>>
>> Both part are coded by Angelo Naseli.
>>
>> Also, try to use Gwenview to print. digiKam image editor print
>> interface is inspired to gwenview (dixit Angelo comments).
>>
>> Gilles
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