Digital BW, The Print

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<dragonfly.printing@s...> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 2004, at 8:56 PM, Roy Harrington wrote:
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Dragonfly Imaging =

> > & Printing
> > <dragonfly.printing@s...> wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >> I'm trying out Roy's QTR on my 9600 and hoping to use it with my 4000
> >> soon. Nudge nudge wink wink.
> >>
> >> QTR was working really well for each test I did until I hit a little
> >> bump in the road.
> >>
> >> I'm using a G4 running OSX.3.4 as my print server.
> >> The print is a 15"x60" 8bit grayscale gamma 2.2 @ 360dpi image.
> >> Printing starts off normally, chugging along to about 16", then stops!=

> >> It's done this many times, with different files, and every setting
> >> change I could think of.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> John Toles
> http://www.dragonflyprinting.com/
> http://www.dragonflygallery.ca/
> >
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I've done at least 30" on a 7500 and 7600 without trouble.
> > A couple of things to look at:
> > Immediately after a problem print, run the Print-Gimp-Errorlog script
> > (you'll find it in the CurveDesign folder of the download).  It'll show=

> > any messages logged by the print system.
> >
> > If your picture is a horizontal and you are using landscape mode for
> > printing, try rotating the picture in Photoshop and printing portrait
> > mode.  Landscape requires a lot of extra memory and processing
> > to rotate the image -- maybe that's a problem.
> >
> > Roy
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions Roy.
> 
> The image is vertical 15" wide by 58" tall and I have the paper size 
> set to 24" wide by 60" height. Good idea though. I didn't know that 
> Landscapes required more resources to print.
> 
> It was interesting reading the CUPS Error Log. The Quad9600 print jobs 
> showed no errors in the log, but they stop at 16" every time. Here's a 
> sample job:
> 
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Adding start banner page "none" to job 
> 667.
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Adding end banner page "none" to job 667.
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Job 667 queued on 'Quad9600' by 'toles'.
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Started filter 
> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/cgpdftoraster (PID 1657) for job 667.
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Started filter 
> /usr/libexec/cups/filter/quadrastertoprinter (PID 1658) for job 667.
> I [08/Aug/2004:13:24:43 -0400] Started backend 
> /usr/libexec/cups/backend/usb (PID 1659) for job 667.
> 
> The following two error messages popped up a few times:
> 
> E [08/Aug/2004:13:32:06 -0400] [Job 668] Unable to get media size!
> E [08/Aug/2004:14:00:48 -0400] get_printer_attrs: resource name 
> '/printers/¿ÿÍp' no good!
> 
> I'm not sure if this means anything, but compared to the Epson driver, 
> Gimp is painfully slow printing. Great quality, but slow.
> 
> All the best,
> 
> John

Hi John,

I've looked around and it seems that the gimp-print code is currently
limiting to the 44 inches that older printers maxed out at.   I'm pretty su=
re I can
fix this in the next version.   The slowness is another thing I'm working o=
n.

Roy