Printing Photos and turboprint

[Alan Jackson]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:09:43 -0800
"Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On 12/29/02 19:03, Alan Jackson wrote:
> > Now I'm trying to actually print to it. I've had some success, but I can't
> > quite get it to do what I want. I have some very high res jpeg files I
> > want to print at 1200x1200 dpi. What is the preferred way to do this? When
> > I try to do it through gimp, it barfs - I suspect it uses up too much
> > memory or something trying to generate an absurdly large postscript file.
> 
> define barfs
> 

Failed to print. I did find one problem - I wasn't giving gimp the ppd
file, so that helped a lot. But still with the 1200 dpi file I get :
GNU Ghostscript 6.51 (2001-03-28)
Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
pixmap_class::open: can't read magic header
ERROR:
main: Could not read input file
Report at end of pdrivecontrol_class::release_printer

I can get it to work at 600 dpi...


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