[wplug] photo paper printing using CUPS

Cameron McBride cameron.mcbride at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 12:44:10 EST 2006


On 12/31/06, Patrick Wagstrom <pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> >  Anyone have any ideas?  Is anyone successfully printing glossy photos
> > using a different method / printer under linux?
>
> It's a pain to switch programs, but I've had good luck doing that using
> GIMPPrint from within GIMP.  Of course, this means that you need to set
> up your printer yet again.

Thanks for the suggestion, Patrick, but alas that did not work either.
 After much tweaking, the best I could get was a slightly framed
picture.  Apparently the gimp drivers are just a little off for my
printer, as they don't get the DPI right nor the "full bleed" feature.
 And I can't rig it with the PS level 2 output.

It's sad I couldn't figure out how to do this in software.  I even
tried what the documentation suggested!  (hehe)
  http://hplip.sourceforge.net/howtos/printing.html

For now, I figured out a cheap hack.  Keep a memory card in the
printer.  Copy photo to it, punch buttons on printer to get nice
printout.  In the new year, I'll try and find another solution (so if
there are more suggestions, throw them out there).  If I find anything
useful, I'll report back to the list.  Since photo printing is getting
rather popular, it'd be nice to say that linux can do it as well
(especially when the OS print drivers report that it can be done!).

Happy new year.

Cameron


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