On 07/02/2013 05:03 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
I've got a HP Photosmart printer that works pretty well for regular
jobs. The problem is when I want to use the photo tray.
I've learned the hard way that at least with Linux, it is often
advantageous to make a copy of the printer to use as the "photo" queue
with all the appropriate defaults set.
So here's my scenario:
Wife wants to print a photo to the 4x6 photo tray with photo paper in it.
I setup the queue as mentioned above.
She opens the photo with the default application (Shotwell)
The clicks the print button, changes to the photo queue, and clicks print.
It prints out of the 8.5x11 plain paper tray.
I check her laptop via "localhost:631" and verify that the queue was
setup correctly, and it was.
I open the photo with Shotwell, click the photo queue, and go through
the settings in the other tabs only to find that "plain paper", 8.5x11
size, and default color print quality selected.
I try to fix this by selecting 4x6 borderless prints, high-quality
photo printing but then try to change the paper type. Only plain and
transparency are available, no photo paper in the drop down, which the
print dialog complains that the print settings are not compatible, no duh.
The photo does print on the 4x6 photo paper and looks OK, but not great...
Is this just a problem with Shotwell?
Richard
Hi Richard,
I have a Canon Pixma MP990 printer wirelessly connected to my
router so that it is available to any device anywhere in the house.
I've tried an experiment with Shotwell to see what my impact is and
from what I am seeing I would say your problem is a combination of the
printer driver, Shotwell and Fedora. I loaded one of the background
image directories into Shotwell, selected one of the images and selected
File->Print and my printer. Looking at the page setup, image settings
and image quality tabs provided once the printer was selected, the
specifications seem to be honoring the default settings specified in the
printer definition except for paper size which Shotwell has set to US
letter whereas the printer definition has it set to A4.
Looking at the page setup tab the Paper Type dropdown contains all
the paper types supported by the printer driver, Paper Size dropdown has
all the paper sizes supported by the printer driver including 4x6 and
the Paper Source dropdown has all the source options made available by
the printer driver plus an additional option of "Printer Default".
The other tabs of Image Settings, Image Quality, Color and Advanced
all seem to be honoring the settings specified in the printer driver,
including the Advanced Tab providing the borderless option and also all
the additional ink fine tuning options specified by the printer driver.
I also tried a test print by selecting all the settings necessary
to do photo printing and sent the image to the printer (even though I
only had plain paper in the printer) and the printer went through its
initial setup process then threw the print process away and indicated to
the pc that the process finished successfully.
I tried just a normal print using all the default options specified
by the printer driver except for borderless which I set and that was
thrown away by the printer as well.
A print using all the defaults as specified by the driver printed
fine, but the image color was complete rubbish, which I had also
encountered when printing a map from Google maps (I had to switch to
Windows to print the map in proper colors). This color issue seems to be
an issue with Fedora 18 and gutenprint, as when I had Fedora 17 I was
using the same version of gutenprint (from upstream) that Fedora 18
supplies and I did not have this color issue.
regards,
Steve
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