[Digikam-users] Printing - Death by 1000 paper cuts...

[davidvincentjones]

My experience with HPLIP is that the HP 'Device Manager' settings must
exactly match the settings in DK otherwise there is a problem.
There appears to be a problem in DK in that the settings made for one print
are not retained for the next print ... not so good. This is particularly
apparent regarding print orientation.
A further HPLIP problem appears to lie when the 'tray' options in Device
Manager do not match the tray names for a particular printer. (for instance
on my printer the printer's Specialty Media Tray is not named as one of the
6 input tray options).

David



So Lixo wrote:
> 
> Let's see if I can explain more or less what's going on, because this is
> starting to get expensive in ink and photo paper... 
> 
> I've an HP printer, namely the HP 309G, connected by wired network, and
> using the latest HPLIP software. So far so good. I can print, scan, and
> access the onboard card reader through the network without any issues, and
> the print/photo quality is superb.
> 
> Let's see what's is killing me...
> 
> Now on the HPLIP systray application, so out of Digikam application, I set
> my printer settings, namely, photo paper 4x6 without border, upper photo
> tray, photo quality and PORTRAIT mode.
> 
> If I go to Digikam and choose an image shoot in vertical, so if I do
> Image->Print Images, a Kipi plugin printer dialog shows up, and I just say
> ->Print<- and the picture is printed in the A4 paper tray, normal
> quality... Not good.... It just ignored my settings, BUT it showed them as
> the default values on the properties button... Weird...
> 
> Let's try again, but this time, at the print dialog, I choose the
> properties printer dialog, and then I just choose like paper type from
> 4x6in and choose again 4x6in without changing anything, but only messing
> around with the dialog. Result -> perfect print. So it seems that changing
> something on the dialog makes settings "stick".
> 
> If I choose a horizontal shot, a "normal" photo, then I'll have to say on
> the printer dialog, that the orientation is Landscape... Because I've made
> a change, the settings "stick", and so the print comes out ok, but, it's
> annoying because 99% of the photos are on landscape mode and I need not to
> forget to make this change. If I go to the HPLIP systray settings, to make
> the default mode Landscape, I don't need to change it anymore for
> horizontal photos (I print them in portrait mode), but my Portrait
> pictures now need to be printed in Landscape mode....
> 
> So I think there is a bug and a wish here. 
>    Bug: settings don't stick
>    Wish: printer mode portrait/landscape could be chosen based on photo
> orientation.
> 
> As it can be seen, I've already destroyed a lot of paper finding this... 
> 
> But if I need to print a series of photos on a row, well I need to use the
> Print assistant...
> 
> And I really don't know where to start.... First documentation is lacking:
> http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extragear-graphics/kipi-plugins/printwizard.html
> 
> I'll be more than happy to make the documentation for this, and contribute
> to the community, but first I need to understand it... 
> 
> I understand most of the interface, and settings, except three things: 
> 
> The first screen has a printer dropdown box and a properties button. Ok,
> this maybe for setting up my parameters... but at the end of the print
> wizard, again the print dialog box appears.... So what is the purpose of
> the first one? And if on the last print dialog box I don't change
> anything, then I'll just get large normal A4 paper printings...
> 
> On the second step I can rotate the images, but in this case the crop area
> stays the same, but if I move to the second image, the crop area follows
> the rotate... 
> 
> So I'm lost. Can somebody see what's going on with this? 
> 
> Thanks again for a great product !
> 
> (Note: I've not yet leaved Picasa due to the non destructive editing....
> Go GoSC for this!)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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