On Thursday 19 December 2002 12:39 am, Erik Farnsworth wrote:
> In Configuration>KDE>System>Printing Manger printer properties....what
> are your settings?

I assume these are the settings you are talking about:

Output Mode:            Color
Resolution:             360 DPI
Media Size:             Letter
Media Type:             Plain Paper
Brightness:             1.000
Contrast:                       1.000
Cyan:                   1.000
Density:                        1.000
Dither Algorithm:       Adaptive Hybrid
Image Type:             Photograph
Ink Type:                       Six Color Photo
Magenta:                        1.000
Saturation:                     1.000
Yellow:                 1.000

>
> Have you set the correct number of colors?  have you set it for
> photographic?  Have you set a reasonable dpi?...overkill on the
> resolution, especially if other settings are incorrect or marginal, will
> make a huge difference in the output....
>
> have you turn mtink in a terminal window (as superuser) to make sure all
> is set correctly there?

Yes. Everything is fine save for some minor head cloging...

> On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 22:09, James Dawson wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > I am trying to print a picture in The GIMP but there are two problems.
> >
> > First is that the printing is unberably slow. It takes something like 3
> > hours (no exageration!) to print out the 2"x3" picture I'm working on.
> >
> > Second, when the printout is finally complete it is so washed out that it
> > is almost invisible!
> >
> > I am using Mandrake 9.0 (GIMP 1.2.3 included on the Mandrake CD) printing
> > to an Epson Stylus Photo 820 via USB. Printing in other applications
> > (including the printer test page) is fine. When I print to my other
> > printer (a Brother HL-1850 laser printer) it prints out fine (albeit not
> > in color...)
> >
> > Does anyone know what might be the problem?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
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> >
> >
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> > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com


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