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azmike

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« on: August 12, 2009, 02:49:33 pm »

I recently printed a 15x30 image with a resolution of 360dpi on my newish HP Z3200 via my newish Photoshop CS4.  Yikes! The printed image was 15x30 but was composed of image stripes and white stripes. The image content is all there but is distorted/squished, e.g. the petroglyph circle becomes an oval.

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Striping (which is perpendicular to head travel) occurs at an image resolution of 360dpi, but not at resolutions of 300dpi or 600dpi.
The problem is repeatable and occurs with other images at 360dpi (but not all images).
I can't associate image size with the error, e.g. I cropped a small slice out of the 15x30 image and the error occurred but with a different stripe dimension.
Printing via CS2 is without problems.

I suspect this may be the same problem Steve H. posted on June 21st (Stripes when printing 1200dpi on z3100) which seemed unresolved.

For reference, I'm using Windows XP on a 4GB Dell.

I will ask Adobe and HP, but I figure that the real wisdom for this problem might be with LL forum members.  Thanks in advance.


Mike Coffey
Prescott, Arizona
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Ernst Dinkla

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« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 03:58:16 pm »

Quote from: azmike
I suspect this may be the same problem Steve H. posted on June 21st (Stripes when printing 1200dpi on z3100) which seemed unresolved.

For reference, I'm using Windows XP on a 4GB Dell.

I will ask Adobe and HP, but I figure that the real wisdom for this problem might be with LL forum members.  Thanks in advance.


Mike Coffey
Prescott, Arizona


There was a reply at the end of that thread with the suggestion to deactivate the spooler. Did you try that ?

Given the samples in both threads one starts to think about flaws in the resampling algorithm. The question is whether it is in the application you print from or in the driver. I have not seen anything like this when printing from Qimage, not to the Z3100 and not to the Z3200. XP or 64 bit Vista.


met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst Dinkla

Try: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wide_Inkjet_Printers/
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« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2009, 05:21:41 pm »

Thanks Ernst,   I did try Murray's suggestion to purge the queue and stopping and restarting spooling service.....and for a few test prints the same striped error occurs.

Needless to say I have dumped Photoshop's perfs file and restarted as well as the usual restarts and plug pulling.  All to no effect.

Wonder if Steve H. is still having the same problem?

Mike Coffey
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