Printing Photos and turboprint

[Net Llama!]

On 12/29/02 19:50, Alan Jackson wrote:
> 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...

Does it run out of swap?

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