Digital BW, The Print

From: "David Wroblewski" <dawroblewski@...>
To: "DigitalBW" <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 7:05 PM
Subject: [Digital BW] QTR Linux install question


> For those of you who have installed QTR on Linux, does this
problem
> sound familiar:
>
> I have compiled and installed the software, defined a QTR
version of
> my 2200 as a printer, and installed the example curves. Running
a print
> job via "qtcups CurveDesign/Images/qtrip-big.jpg"
> produces a print dialog with all the right stuff, ie shows the
curves
> and options as expected. When I click OK the print manager
shows a
> document getting queued for the printer. So far, so good.
>
> Then the job disappears off the printer queue but nothing
happens with
> the printer. (As a sanity check, if I invoke qtcups as above
but print
> though the standard, non-QTR, printer definition the image
prints
> immediately without problems.)
>
> When I look at the the results of Print-Gimp-ErrorLog.command,
I see two
> suspicious things. On jobs where I select paper source =
standard, I see
> warnings that say "Media Tray Empty!" and "Invalid Printer
settings!".
> If I select paper source as "Auto", I see those messages plus
> "PID 1234 crashed on signal 11!"
>
> Thanks for your patience. Resolution will get rolled into the
Linux
> installation notes, of course.
>
> Thanks,
> David

I'm printing from XPP now and have a similar problem. Converting
the B&W file from 16 to 8 bit did the trick here. Could be the
file size or the bit depth.

Ernst