gimp-print fails in gimp

[Jack Bowling]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:31:49PM +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Someone else mentioned newish trouble with printing so here's my
> problem.
> 
> I have an epson cx3200 multifunction which has worked flawlessly in the
> past, but inside the last 6 months GIMP cannot print anything
> meaningful. I just get garbage, I've tried to search for why and haven't
> turned up anything yet, maybe someone can help before I put in a bug
> report.
> 
> Instead of an image I get something like this:
> 
> %:PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%Creator: Print plug-in V4.2 for GIMP/Gimp-Print 4.2.7 (15 Jul 2004)
> etc... here's a bit that someone might recognise as a problem..?
> 
> BitsPerComponent 8
> Decode [ 0 1 0 1 0 1 ]
> DataSource currentfile /ASCII85Decode filter
> ImageMatrix [ 1 0 0 -1 0 1 ]
> 
> Any ideas out there?

I have one thing to check. Go to the Setup Printer tab of gimp-print. If
you see your printer using the -oraw switch, take it out. If it isn't using
it, put it in. Can be a lifesaver changing this one.

Jack