Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-11-05 Thread Tom Williams
On 11/05/2010 03:11 PM, redforce wrote: >> Indeed. Please file a bug-report at Ubuntu. We explicitly released a >> fixed version (2.6.11) before the Ubuntu release. The Ubuntu maintainers >> should do their users a favor and update to that release. > Seems that this has been reported: > https://bug

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-11-01 Thread Sven Neumann
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 01:11 +0100, geoffrey wrote: > I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try > to print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro > prints any other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu > gets the 2,6.10 > with the ca

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Williams
On 10/31/2010 05:11 PM, geoffrey wrote: > I just installed gimp with Ubuntu 10.10. Simple problem. Any way I try to > print, the printer produces a blank sheet of paper. HPDeskJetPro prints any > other program's output. It seems that the package on Ubuntu gets the 2,6.10 > with the cairo softwar

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-10-15 Thread Jay Smith
On 10/15/2010 09:30 AM, John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 14 October 2010 18:09:18 ChadBJX wrote: >>> Chad, >>> >>> Can you print _anything_ from Gimp? >>> >>> If you can print a very tiny image, maybe it is a printer memory >>> problem. >>> >>> Sorry, I can't help further. I don't have Vista and

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Problem

2010-10-15 Thread John Culleton
On Thursday 14 October 2010 18:09:18 ChadBJX wrote: > >Chad, > > > >Can you print _anything_ from Gimp? > > > >If you can print a very tiny image, maybe it is a printer memory > > problem. > > > >Sorry, I can't help further. I don't have Vista and I am sitting > > here happily emailing from Ubuntu

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-22 Thread Frank Gore
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I have had a perfectly good colour printer for some years but have > concluded that, for good results and peace of mind at a reasonable cost, > I send my photos to be commercially printed. I agree that there are > reasonably priced print

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-22 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > I'm one of those people who's a hard core open source user and sniffs > disdainfully at any proprietary solution to achieve my means :) But I > try not to impose these irrational beliefs on anyone else, especially > on mailing lists and forums. I'd much rather saddle myself with a > cra

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 February 2010, Frank Gore wrote: >On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dick Smith wrote: >> However, if the $140 printer won't print on linux, then there is lttle to >> be gained by purchasing one. > >I always check for proper Linux support first. There are very few HP >printers that aren

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Frank Gore
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dick Smith wrote: > However, if the $140 printer won't print on linux, then there is lttle to be > gained by purchasing one. I always check for proper Linux support first. There are very few HP printers that aren't perfectly supported under Linux. My Color LaserJe

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Frank Gore
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote: > Just a suggestion, have you tried using TurboPrint, a free trial is > available? It may work and is much cheaper than a new printer. I'm one of those people who's a hard core open source user and sniffs disdainfully at any proprietary s

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > Using GIMP 2.6, running on Ubuntu Linux, v9.10. The printer is an HP > > Photosmart C5180 on my home network. I have the hplip printing package > > installed. I've chosen Custom Sizes from the page setup options, choosing > > the C5180. > > > > The HPLIP is the latest version available. >

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Frank Gore
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Dick Smith wrote: > Using GIMP 2.6, running on Ubuntu Linux, v9.10. The printer is an HP > Photosmart C5180 on my home network. I have the hplip printing package > installed. I've chosen Custom Sizes from the page setup options, choosing > the C5180. > > The HPL

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-21 Thread Dick Smith
Using GIMP 2.6, running on Ubuntu Linux, v9.10. The printer is an HP Photosmart C5180 on my home network. I have the hplip printing package installed. I've chosen Custom Sizes from the page setup options, choosing the C5180. The HPLIP is the latest version available. Dick On Sat, Feb 20, 2010

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing

2010-02-20 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dick Smith wrote: > Is it possible to print to custom sizes using Gimp? I keep having > failures when I try to print to a non-standard print size. Specifically > trying to create greeting cards printed to a 7x10 inch format. > Everything seems ok until I send the print job to my HP Photosmart C

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2010-02-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Somewhere I what wrote: In case my post was not clear enough, I print black and white line drawings and photos from within GIMP 2.6.8 to my printer, a Ricoh Aficio 610, directly through Ricoh network drivers running an OS of Win 98 PRO SP3. ns ___ Gim

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2010-02-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
jon s.: I, too, am using Windows XP (though not on a Dell), and upgraded to Gimp 2.6.8 after I posted my response. Printer is a Ricoh Aficio 610, connected as a network printer through a router, printing directly using the Windows network drivers supplied by Ricoh for the printer, and it work

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2010-02-08 Thread Cristian Secară
On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:05:19 +0100 (CET), jon s. wrote: > I am running windows xp on a nice dell optiplex. I believe the os is > up to date. Just upgrade to ..6.8. Gimp works fine, except that I > cannot print! I open a line drawing, do file, print, and nothing > happens. There must be some s

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2010-02-08 Thread Deniz Dogan
2010/2/7 jon s. : > Hi all, and thanks in advance for your help.  I am a newbie with GIMP, and > usually use it for light touch up of digital photos of artwork. > > I am running windows xp on a nice dell optiplex.  I believe the os is up to > date.  Just upgrade to ..6.8.  Gimp works fine, except t

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2010-02-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
jon s.: The information you included is insufficient for me to be of much help. > I am running windows xp on a nice dell optiplex. I believe the os is up to > date. Just upgrade to ..6.8. Gimp works fine, except that I cannot print! I > open a line drawing, do file, print, and nothing happen

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing (was Re: running out of hair)

2009-12-28 Thread Norman Silverstone
After lots and lots of trying to print I had to spend some cash and buy TurboPrint - problem solved. Norman ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing (was Re: running out of hair)

2009-12-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 December 2009, Akkana Peck wrote: >Gene Heskett writes: >> >So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so that >> > the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print dialog has >> > no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough controls to be >> >

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread John Culleton
On Friday 24 July 2009 12:40:42 am Erik Lotspeich wrote: > Hi, > > I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious > problem with printing that I cannot figure out. > > For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to > Gimp, Linux, or Unix. > > That being said, I found th

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I guess that it is possible your theory is correct and that this is the > motivation. > > Since printing with Gimp on Vista does not work properly, it calls this > theory into question, however. You have a point. However, my view has always been that, although it is great that the bulk of soft

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-27 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi Norman, I guess that it is possible your theory is correct and that this is the motivation. Since printing with Gimp on Vista does not work properly, it calls this theory into question, however. Regards, Erik Norman Silverstone wrote: > < snip > > >> Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imag

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > Just imagine a novice Linux user. Imagine your mother-in-law who wants > to print a photo with Gimp. She will fail. That is my point. I think > that you all are missing the point that I'm making. Your mother-in-law > will be confused by "Print" and "Print with Gutenprint". Nobody

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gene, Your point is well taken. I do not expect the Gimp people to keep on top of printing at all. But why not have Gutenprint be a pre-requisite to Gimp? Why deliver a broken default printing system? For the record, my distro does deliver the

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 25 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: >Hi Chris, > >I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only >solidifies my point which is: > >Native Gimp printing = FAIL >Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN > >My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribu

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Erik Lotspeich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris, I appreciate your feedback. Looking at the history of gutenprint only solidifies my point which is: Native Gimp printing = FAIL Gutenprint (Gimp plug-in) = WIN My distro is OpenSUSE 11.1 which is a popular, modern Linux distribution backe

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-25 Thread Chris Mohler
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Erik Lotspeich wrote: > The fact that the Gimp engineers haven't integrated these two printing > systems is unacceptable -- they should be ashamed.  Gimp will never be > taken seriously until this printing nightmare is resolved.  I am a > software engineer myself,

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-24 Thread Erik Lotspeich
Hi Joao, I very much appreciate your measured response to my rant! ;) I installed the Gutenprint plugin and printing works exactly as I would expect it to. Your suggestion really saved the day for me and I appreciate it greatly! For the record, I find it absurd that Gimp has two parallel print

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing issue

2009-07-24 Thread Joao S. O. Bueno
On Friday 24 July 2009, Erik Lotspeich wrote: > Hi, > > I have OpenSUSE 11.1 and Gimp 2.6.2. I am having a serious problem with > printing that I cannot figure out. > > For background, I've used Gimp since 1997 and I'm no novice to Gimp, > Linux, or Unix. > > That being said, I found the printing

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing from a batch

2009-02-26 Thread Decimator Doseven
On Wed Feb 25 13:50:21 PST 2009 Sven Neumann wrote: >It would help to make some suggestions for the parameters that need to >be added. >Until we have changed this, you could work around the missing parameters >by having your script modify the files print-settings and >print-page-setup as found

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing from a batch

2009-02-25 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 07:03 -0800, Decimator Doseven wrote: > It appears that I was mistaken, and the script used a command that gimp does > not have: > "file_print_gimp" > > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2006-April/007923.html > > I assumed(obviously incorrectly) that the n

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing from a batch

2009-02-25 Thread Decimator Doseven
It appears that I was mistaken, and the script used a command that gimp does not have: "file_print_gimp" http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2006-April/007923.html I assumed(obviously incorrectly) that the name of the command had changed. In this case, is this there a command that al

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing from a batch

2009-02-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 15:02 -0800, Decimator Doseven wrote: > It does not appear to. All it has is (file-print-gtk run-mode image), > which does not do what I need and does not match what I've seen > in the various(unfortunately non-working) scripts that I was able to find. What does it not

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing from a batch

2009-02-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 14:20 -0800, Decimator Doseven wrote: > Could someone tell me the proper syntax for "file-print-gtk"? The Prodecure Browser (as found in the GIMP Help menu) should tell you. Sven ___ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.X

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-26 Thread Francois du Toit
Another method is to leave the cartridge overnight in a sealed plastic bag with a piece of wet cloth or similar inside. Of course it won't work as fast as submerging the nozzle in water, but then you don't risk flooding the cartridge either. >> > This is how the printer technician at my work does

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-26 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Friday 26 September 2008 01:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/9/25 Rikard Johnels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Spit is probably one of the worst cleaning solvents you can use... > > The nozzles are so small that particles in your spit will clog them. > > > > This is how the printer technician at my work

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/25 Rikard Johnels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Spit is probably one of the worst cleaning solvents you can use... > The nozzles are so small that particles in your spit will clog them. > > This is how the printer technician at my work does it: > Place the cartridge head down in a shallow bowl with

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-25 Thread Rikard Johnels
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 19:11, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/9/23 Kevin Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. > > > > The simplest solution is to run multiple cleaning cycles to clear the > > nozzles. I had an inkjet

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/23 Don Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Cheaper printers are RBY, not CMYK. He never said he had an RGB > printer. (I don't think anyone even makes an RGB printer.) My HP printer, > for example, had a Red-Blue-Yellow cartridge and a black one. I do have > another printer that is CMYK. > I shou

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/9/23 Kevin Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: >> My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. > > The simplest solution is to run multiple cleaning cycles to clear the nozzles. > I had an inkjet printer where multiple nozzles were clogged. It took about > three

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread Don Koch
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:26:28 -0400 John Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2008 05:20:47 am Torsten Neuer wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 10:36:18 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > > > My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. > > > Of the blue, yellow,

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread John Culleton
On Tuesday 23 September 2008 05:20:47 am Torsten Neuer wrote: > Hello, > > Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 10:36:18 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > > My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. > > Of the blue, yellow, red, and black cartridges, I want to only > > print from the blue. I

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread Kevin Cozens
Dotan Cohen wrote: > My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. The simplest solution is to run multiple cleaning cycles to clear the nozzles. I had an inkjet printer where multiple nozzles were clogged. It took about three or four of the printers built-in cleaning cycles to

Re: [Gimp-user] printing only blue

2008-09-23 Thread Torsten Neuer
Hello, Am Dienstag, 23. September 2008 10:36:18 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > My printer has a stuck blue nozzle and I am trying to clean it. Of the > blue, yellow, red, and black cartridges, I want to only print from the > blue. I tried to configure a blue-255 colour and the rest 0, however > the printe

Re: [Gimp-user] printing in gimp..

2008-01-24 Thread norman
< snip > > I'm pretty sure the same thing is true of the latest Fedora package for > gimp 2.4.3. But one can get the gutenprint gimp plugin which does the > job quite well. I bet that is available for ubuntu also. As far as I know, it always has for Ubuntu. Norman ___

Re: [Gimp-user] printing in gimp..

2008-01-24 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, to shed some more light on the issue of how preview works with the GIMP Print plug-in based on GTK+ Print, here's an excerpt from another mail on this subject: We just hand-off printing (and previewing) to Gtk. Gtk then calls the appropriate pdf viewer. WHat is the "appropriate" previewer

Re: [Gimp-user] printing in gimp..

2008-01-23 Thread Leonard Evens
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 19:00 +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:25 +0900, Choi, JiHui wrote: > > > 1. in windows, gimp doesn't have print preview.. > > That's a problem of the GTK+ print system. The implementation on Windows > is lacking some functionality. I am sure th

Re: [Gimp-user] printing in gimp..

2008-01-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 01:25 +0900, Choi, JiHui wrote: > 1. in windows, gimp doesn't have print preview.. That's a problem of the GTK+ print system. The implementation on Windows is lacking some functionality. I am sure the GTK+ developers would love to get some help with that. http://bugzi

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2007-10-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, one more thing that I forgot to say. Prior to GIMP 2.4 we basically didn't have a Print dialog. We shipped with the plug-in that the gimp-print (now gutenprint) project developed. On the Linux platform, you can still get the Gutenprint plug-in for GIMP if you prefer that. Sven

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2007-10-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:19 +0100, norman wrote: > I am using 2.3.18 Please update to a newer version then, before anything else. If you are using Ubuntu 7.10, simply installing the gimp package will get you GIMP 2.4rc3. About the Print dialog. This dialog is platform specific and almost al

Re: [Gimp-user] printing on DVD

2007-07-20 Thread norman
> > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I > > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and, > > if so, how would one go about the task? > > I use OpenOffice.org Draw to do that (and GIMP for any actual image work). > Draw lets you arran

Re: [Gimp-user] printing on DVD

2007-07-19 Thread Bob Long
- Original Message - From: "norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and, > if so, how would one go about the task? I use OpenOffice.org Draw to do that (an

Re: [Gimp-user] printing on DVD

2007-07-19 Thread norman
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:04 +0100, norman wrote: > > * norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-19-07 13:35]: > > > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I > > > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and, > > > if so, how would one go about the tas

Re: [Gimp-user] printing on DVD

2007-07-19 Thread norman
> * norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-19-07 13:35]: > > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I > > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and, > > if so, how would one go about the task? > > no problem preparing the image/s, as to printing

Re: [Gimp-user] printing on DVD

2007-07-19 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [07-19-07 13:35]: > The printer I have is said to be capable of printing on a CD or DVD. I > wondered if it were possible to prepare and print images using Gimp and, > if so, how would one go about the task? no problem preparing the image/s, as to printing, hard to tel

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing Gimp.app 2.2.11 OSX to Xerox Phaser 6100

2007-01-21 Thread Axel Wernicke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I'm using gimp.app 2.2.11 too and printing works for me with a HP ColorLaserJet 4500 DN and OS X 10.4.8 Greetings, lexA Am 21.01.2007 um 20:18 schrieb Matthew Polashek: > Hi! > > I can't seem to print from Gimp.app to my Xerox Phaser 61

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing to non-epson printer

2006-09-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Sunday 24 September 2006 10:54, Matthew Polashek wrote: > I have been trying to figure out how to print to my xerox color laser > printer. Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > Matt In general Gimp is best used to create illos for documents/web pages rather than the documents themselves. But you can

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing on CDs with the new gtk+ printing dialog

2006-09-28 Thread Daniel Kasak
Sven Neumann wrote: ith an older Gimp allows me to print this CD cover. Any ideas? You can install gutenprint if that gives you better results. I also have this installed. You could investigate the problem and file a bug report against GTK+. You can use the stable GIMP that you shoul

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing on CDs with the new gtk+ printing dialog

2006-09-28 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 09:20 +1000, Daniel Kasak wrote: > With the old gimp & print dialog ( and with the help of a gimp plugin to > set up CD covers ), I've had great success in printing CD covers. After > a recent gimp update, the old print dialog has been replaced with the > new gtk+ one

Re: [Gimp-user] printing landscape on 3x5 cards

2006-04-17 Thread Geoffrey
David Lee wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:37:17 -0400 Jim Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have some 3x5 templates in .png format that I downloaded. I want to print them out in landscape format, because if I print them as portrait my printer bracket won't come in tight enough to hold the card

Re: [Gimp-user] printing landscape on 3x5 cards

2006-04-17 Thread David Lee
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:37:17 -0400 Jim Philips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have some 3x5 templates in .png format that I downloaded. I want to > print them out in landscape format, because if I print them as portrait > my printer bracket won't come in tight enough to hold the card in > place. S

Re: [Gimp-user] printing from OSX

2006-03-09 Thread Axel Wernicke
Am 09.03.2006 um 09:57 schrieb Matthew Polashek: I have a Xerox 6100 though and I havne't had the same success, though I did install GIMP.app. What did you select as a printer when printing? Well, I get a pretty huge print dialog which contains a drop down list where I just select the pr

Re: [Gimp-user] printing from OSX

2006-03-09 Thread Matthew Polashek
I have a Xerox 6100 though and I havne't had the same success, though I did install GIMP.app. What did you select as a printer when printing? Matthew Polashek [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.tinysongs.com On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 18:57 , Axel Wernicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Hi, > >Am 09.03.2006 um 09:39 sc

Re: [Gimp-user] printing from OSX

2006-03-09 Thread Axel Wernicke
Hi, Am 09.03.2006 um 09:39 schrieb Matthew Polashek: Hi! Is there any way to get GIMP for OSX to print to the standard printer I have set up in OSX? I have a Xerox 6100N Color Laser that I'd love to use with GIMP, but I can't find a PPD for OSX. Why would you want to find yourself a pp

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-25 Thread Doug
P.S. If like me you don't have any German, you'll need Babelfish http://babelfish.altavista.com/ in order to understand the bug report form, but you can report in English and the reply comes back in English as well HTH Doug Doug wrote: Hi Paul, Sorry you're not having much joy so far. I d

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-25 Thread Doug
Hi Paul, Sorry you're not having much joy so far. I don't know that I can offer any specific advice - I do remember suffering a similar problem to yours at first which did get resolved, perhaps by following the instructions in the manual religiously, but now I don't recall how. I do find the p

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Waldo
Hi Doug, I have been experimenting with TurboPrint and have not been very impressed with the results. It is still better than the stock gimpprint, but my test image has a noticeable red-cast. Can you give some more details on your results with TurboPrint? If it would give me Windows-qualit

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In 2.3.7 I don't see a softproof filter. Do I need 2.2.x. to use it? You better just wait for 2.4 and a few weeks more to give the gimp-docs team a chance to update the documentation. Sven ___ Gim

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-23 Thread John R. Culleton
> That is possible. You can already do that in GIMP 2.2, but I admit > that using the Softproof filter in 2.2 is somewhat tedious. This will > be improved in 2.4. It allows you to work in RGB but the screen (if > properly calibrated using a monitor profile) will show you what the > print will look

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-23 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or as my own father used to say "Don't fight the problem." The > problem is that most printers expect or demand CMYK. Either you > produce artwork in CMYK model to start with or you prepare it in > RGB and then convert it---and hope. > > Perha

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-22 Thread John R. Culleton
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 03:26, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am evaluating two products to use while waiting for Gimp to > > adopt the CMYK color model, Scribus and Krita (part of Koffice). > > Scribus is really a Quark replacement and Krit

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-22 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, "John R. Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am evaluating two products to use while waiting for Gimp to > adopt the CMYK color model, Scribus and Krita (part of Koffice). > Scribus is really a Quark replacement and Krita (inspired in part > by Gimp is still in an early stage. The Krita

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-21 Thread Doug
Paul Waldo wrote: Thanks for the reply, Doug. This looks like it may be the ticket. If it works as advertised, $39 is *nothing*. After spending many tens of hours trying to get wine to work for me, the purchase of Crossover office was a godsend! I think this product may be in the same vein

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-20 Thread John R. Culleton
On Monday 20 February 2006 07:38, Doug wrote: > Paul Waldo wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. > > I am currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management > > capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-20 Thread Doug
Paul Waldo wrote: Hi all, I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. I am currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson Stylus Photo 1280, with horrible results--the colors are of

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread User1001
While (advanced) CYMK capabilities is a current project in Gimp development, the LINUXPRINTING site is valuable for the HP designed/created print drivers, and I assume other print drivers. I have an HP6122 (color duplex inkjet) and with the HP PPD file (driver) am now able to get more control

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread Matt Gushee
Tom Williams wrote: Matt Gushee wrote: Tom Williams wrote: See if it contains some driver info that might be of help to you. Maybe switching to a different driver might help with your printing problem. There is also a forum there for Epson printers that might be of help: If I read the origin

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories? (more info)

2006-02-19 Thread Akkana Peck
Paul Waldo writes: > > I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. I > > am currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management > > capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson Stylus Photo > > 1280, with horrible results--the colors are

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Williams
Paul Waldo wrote: > On Sunday 19 February 2006 2:00 pm, Tom Williams wrote: > >> What version of Gimp-Print are you running: >> >> http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/index.php3 >> >> Also, are you printing through CUPS? >> >> When I have ink in my printer, I can print just fine on my Epson Stylus

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories? (more info)

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Waldo
On Sunday 19 February 2006 1:04 pm, Paul Waldo wrote: > Hi all, > > I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. I > am currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management > capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson Stylus Photo > 1280,

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread Paul Waldo
On Sunday 19 February 2006 2:00 pm, Tom Williams wrote: > What version of Gimp-Print are you running: > > http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/index.php3 > > Also, are you printing through CUPS? > > When I have ink in my printer, I can print just fine on my Epson Stylus > Photo 700. > > Peace... > > T

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Williams
Paul Waldo wrote: > Hi all, > > I am evaluating gimp on linux as a replacement for Photoshop on Windows. I > am > currently using Photoshop/Windows primarily for the color management > capabilities. I have tried printing from gimp to my Epson Stylus Photo 1280, > with horrible results--the co

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing success stories?

2006-02-19 Thread Gracia M. Littauer
> I have tried printing from gimp to my > Epson Stylus Photo 1280, with horrible results--the colors are off by > a significant amount. I also had rotton results: I use SuSE 10 epson color stylus 3000 gimp 2.2.7 I forgot what driver (hsn't been installed in over a yr), but it was the latest g

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing problems

2006-01-19 Thread Marcus Planet
On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:45 am, Orlando Figueiredo wrote: > Hello there > I am using GImp with Fedora Core 4. I have a printer installed trough > CUPS and everything is working perfectly except with Gimp printing > command. When I try to print something from Gimp the printer starts > loading

Re: [Gimp-user] printing GIMPed photos

2005-12-07 Thread Tom Williams
Helen wrote: Is anyone able to recommend the best (or a good) printer for a Gimp user on a Linux (SuSE) system? I want good quality prints, with good color. Cost is a factor, but is not the most important factor. Gimp is the only photo-editing program I use, but I don't have to use Gimp for pr

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2004-06-09 Thread Gary Montalbine
Jouni Tapio Rinne wrote: Tomek Grzejszczyk wrote: Hi, I want to print an image. I have cups installed and I can do it writing: lp image.jpg But when I try to print this image from gimp (which gives me really great flexibility to position and scale the image, and set printing quality), I get no re

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2004-06-09 Thread Jouni Tapio Rinne
Tomek Grzejszczyk wrote: Hi, I want to print an image. I have cups installed and I can do it writing: lp image.jpg But when I try to print this image from gimp (which gives me really great flexibility to position and scale the image, and set printing quality), I get no result. It is strange becau

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2004-06-09 Thread Gary Montalbine
Tomek Grzejszczyk wrote: Hi, I want to print an image. I have cups installed and I can do it writing: lp image.jpg But when I try to print this image from gimp (which gives me really great flexibility to position and scale the image, and set printing quality), I get no result. It is strange becau

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-23 Thread Khiraly
Hi! And why the PostScript Level 2 output can't read with GV (or GS) ? The output of latex document(and even if I print form OO.org into file, with the ,,Generic Printer'' it can be read with gv and and naturaly print to my EpsonC70|HP LaserJet 4L) Here is the output of gs: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-22 Thread Alf C Stockton
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Josenildo Marques wrote: > When I try to print with The Gimp I have to choose my printer as the > output. If I leave the output as PostScript Level 2, all it prints is > unreadable gibberish on many sheets of paper. > How can I solve this ? > I had exactly the same problem unt

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-21 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 08:16:47PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > Thanks, again, Marco. > It's an Epson Styllus Colour 580. > I am wondering if there is a way to save this setting so that I won't > need to do that every time I want to print something. > I'm fairly sure it can. I can't tell

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-21 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 17:07, Marco Wessel wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: > > When I try to print with The Gimp I have to choose my printer as the > > output. If I leave the output as PostScript Level 2, all it prints is > > unreadable gibberish on many s

Re: [Gimp-user] printing

2003-12-21 Thread Marco Wessel
On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 04:47:35PM -0200, Josenildo Marques wrote: > When I try to print with The Gimp I have to choose my printer as the > output. If I leave the output as PostScript Level 2, all it prints is > unreadable gibberish on many sheets of paper. > How can I solve this ? Your printer ca

Re: [Gimp-user] Printing in Ver 1.2.2

2002-04-18 Thread Alistair Carr
John Culleton wrote:- > If you make your virtual desktop bigger than your physical desktop > then you can slide around with the mouse without resizing or using > alt keys etc. Here are my settings in /etc/X11/XF86Config: -- Thanks John but