printing photos - stripes

[Per Aalrust]

Dear all,

is there still an issue with printing photos from digikam? I just printed some
photos and got very thin stripes at different positions on an A4 print out.
If I create a pdf file, I do not get any stripes. My system is opensuse 10.3,
KDE 3.5.7, digikam 0.9.3. Any experiences out there, to solve that problem?

regards
Per
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[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Per,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Per Aalrust wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> is there still an issue with printing photos from digikam? I just printed some
> photos and got very thin stripes at different positions on an A4 print out.
> If I create a pdf file, I do not get any stripes. My system is opensuse 10.3,
> KDE 3.5.7, digikam 0.9.3. Any experiences out there, to solve that problem?

Sounds like
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155415 ?

(No idea whether any solution is on the way, sorry ....)

Best, Arnd
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[Sveinn í Felli]

Hi Per,

I've had my dose of printing quirks in OpenSuse in the past.
But I have a couple of questions:

What printer do you have ?
Which app do you use for printing PDFs ? (KPDF, GhostView,
Acrobat)
Do you know what's your default printing subsystem ?

Acrobat seems to have a way of bypassing Cusp, or at least
use some different setup.

Best regards,

Sveinn í Felli

Per Aalrust wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> is there still an issue with printing photos from digikam? I just printed some
> photos and got very thin stripes at different positions on an A4 print out.
> If I create a pdf file, I do not get any stripes. My system is opensuse 10.3,
> KDE 3.5.7, digikam 0.9.3. Any experiences out there, to solve that problem?
>
> regards
> Per
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[Per Aalrust]

Hi Sveinn

> What printer do you have ?

        I use an Epson Stylus Photo R245 printer.

> Which app do you use for printing PDFs ? (KPDF, GhostView,
> Acrobat)

        I created a PDF with kprinter and printed it with Acrobat. That worked fine,
no stripes.

> Do you know what's your default printing subsystem ?

        I use cups with a printer driver from Epson Kowa (Avasys), that came with
opensuse.

> Acrobat seems to have a way of bypassing Cusp, or at least
> use some different setup.

        From my point of view Acrobat does not bypass cups, because I select the
Epson driver installed in cups for printing, in the print dialog. Even if i
just look on the pdf, there are no stripes.

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Per
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[Sveinn í Felli]

Sorry for the delay, but I think I can confirm your bug;

On OpenSuse 10.2, KDE 3.5.9 and Digikam 9.3 when printing
with the PrintWizard to my new Epson StylusPhoto R360 (Epson
PIPSlite driver) I get one thin stripe at the bottom of my
photos when printed A4 in portait orientation. Curiously the
Printwizard renders impeccably in Landscape mode !?

I tested printing the same picture on my rugged HP-DJ1120c
(Gutenprint 5.0.0 Simplified) with the same settings that
gave the stripes; the output is horrible but at least one
can definetly exclude any stripes there. Same when using the
HP-DJ1120c with the Foomatic/hpijs driver.

Stripes do not occur when printing from the Digikam editor,
PDF printing (both from viewer and editor) is also free of
this annoyance.

I'm suspecting the Kipi-PrintWizard to be the cause when
used with Epson/Canon drivers. Possibly same as
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155415 as pointed out by
Arnd, but then there are counterindications in what people
are experiencing.

Per, what method did you use to print your photos ?

Best regards

Sveinn í Felli

Per Aalrust wrote:

> Hi Sveinn
>
>> What printer do you have ?
>
> I use an Epson Stylus Photo R245 printer.
>
>> Which app do you use for printing PDFs ? (KPDF, GhostView,
>> Acrobat)
>
> I created a PDF with kprinter and printed it with Acrobat. That worked fine,
> no stripes.
>
>> Do you know what's your default printing subsystem ?
>
> I use cups with a printer driver from Epson Kowa (Avasys), that came with
> opensuse.
>
>> Acrobat seems to have a way of bypassing Cusp, or at least
>> use some different setup.
>
> From my point of view Acrobat does not bypass cups, because I select the
> Epson driver installed in cups for printing, in the print dialog. Even if i
> just look on the pdf, there are no stripes.
>
> Best regards
> Per
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[Per Aalrust]

Hi Sveinn,

I use opensuse 10.3, KDE 3.5.7, digikam 0.9.3, with the PIPSlite driver on my
Epson Stylus Photo R245. When printing with Printwizzard in Landscape, I do
not get any stripes. Printing in portrait orientation with Printwizzard
results in stripes. So I can confirm your experience.

> Stripes do not occur when printing from the Digikam editor,
> PDF printing (both from viewer and editor) is also free of
> this annoyance.

        This is exact my experience.

Unfortunatelly I have no other printer to test with.

Best regards
Per
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