gimp-print fails in gimp

[K. Mandla]

I've also had poor luck printing from the GIMP. In general I find myself
touching up the photo as needed, then importing it into OO2 or another
program for output. It's another step, but it keeps me happy.

On 3/17/06, Jack Bowling <jbinpg at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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