Re: graphics files not printing correctly

From: Jason Taylor (jason_at_infinitebubble.com)
Date: 05/21/04

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    Jason Taylor wrote:

    > I've followed the directions in the handbook for setting up lpd and also
    > installed apsfilter via ports and ran /usr/local/share/apsfilter/SETUP.
    > In general printing is working. For example, a text document from OOo
    > prints just fine. However, when I attempt to print a jpeg file the
    > result is what I can best describe as a blurry negative image. That's
    > not terribly accurate. It's more like it's been converted to only a
    > handful of colors and possibly some colors dropped altogether.
    >
    > I've tried both the native gs driver and the gimp-print stp driver with
    > the same results. Test pages printed from within the apsfilter setup
    > look great. The problem does not seem to be limited to jpegs in
    > particular. A pdf from a few days ago was also blurred/color
    > reduced/altered. Images printed directly from firefox a week or so ago
    > show the same symptoms. Whether those were jpeg, gif, png, or something
    > else, I'm not certain.
    >
    > I've ruled out any network issues by copying a few jpeg files over to
    > the server and printing them locally. I've also converted a few from
    > jpeg to ps and back again to rule out imagemagick.
    >
    > I'm confident that the printer itself is in good order based on the good
    > test pages and it having worked well on a WinXP just prior to having
    > been moved over the the FreeBSD box. I no longer have any Windows
    > machines around to check that it still works on them. :-D
    >
    > Any tips will be much appreciated.

    I'm happy to report that the problem is resolved. I can't really say I
    figured it out. I didn't do anything differently than yesterday. I
    looked through the apsfilter SETUP script to see what it does to print a
    test page, replicated it manually, substituting my own jpg converted to
    ps. That worked! So I ran through the SETUP script again allowing it
    to overwrite everything that had been there and now it just works.
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