Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:47:57 -0700 From: Jason Taylor <jason@infinitebubble.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: graphics files not printing correctly Message-ID: <40AD359D.3040406@infinitebubble.com> In-Reply-To: <40AC9574.8060404@infinitebubble.com> References: <40AC9574.8060404@infinitebubble.com>
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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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