[PLUG] Printing pictures.

[Derek Loree]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 13:46, Russ Johnson wrote:
> What do people use the print pictures?
> 
> I have an HP inkjet color printer. While I was using windows, I used
> Paint Shop Pro to print my pictures. 

So do I.
> 
> Now I'm using Linux, and I find that just about everything I use (The
> GIMP, XV, EE, several others) prints washed out and at a very large dot
> pitch. 

I'm able to select media size, media type, and resolution; as well as
scale the image, and adjust the image settings -- including a button for
adjusting the color.  I think I just doubled the saturation (from 1 to
2) and it made a huge difference.
> 
> The images I'm printing at 1600x1200, which should be plenty for
> printing to a 8 1/2x11 sheet of paper. I've proved it by installing
> Paint Shop Pro in my VMware windows machine, and they print fine there.

The highest resolution available is 600x600 DPI.  This does glossy
prints that look pretty good.
>  
> 
> So, what do you use that works?

HTH

Derek Loree