I have a weird problem. I'm trying to print transparencies for lithography using an HP Laser printer with HP's PCL6 driver. I find that if I horizontally flip an image it will still appear fine on the display but will not print on the laser printer. However, it will print on a regular inkjet printer. I think it's some interaction between the laser printer driver and Inkscape where the printer driver thinks the image was actually turned away from the view and therefor prints a blank page. I have only been able to fight this by going into filters/transparencies and changing the object to monochrome(then it appears red) . After a lot of monkeying around with contrast, etc. I can finally get an image from the laser printer but the print quality has suffered and is very pixelated and I need maximum resolution(1200 dpi) to make the image usable. Has anyone seen this issue and found a simple solution that requires minimal modification to the original image?
Beginners' Questions Printing horizontally flipped images
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I have a weird problem. I'm trying to print transparencies for lithography using an HP Laser printer with HP's PCL6 driver. I find that if I horizontally flip an image it will still appear fine on the display but will not print on the laser printer. However, it will print on a regular inkjet printer. I think it's some interaction between the laser printer driver and Inkscape where the printer driver thinks the image was actually turned away from the view and therefor prints a blank page. I have only been able to fight this by going into filters/transparencies and changing the object to monochrome(then it appears red) . After a lot of monkeying around with contrast, etc. I can finally get an image from the laser printer but the print quality has suffered and is very pixelated and I need maximum resolution(1200 dpi) to make the image usable. Has anyone seen this issue and found a simple solution that requires minimal modification to the original image?
Personally, I've rarely found Inkscape to print reliably, so I save a copy as PDF and print that. (But always save as SVG for revisions.)
Tyler[:-)]
How interesting. I'll try that. Thanks!
Hey, aren't you MIA from ZH. LOL!
Martin
That worked fine. Just have to be sure Actual Size is selected when printing to retain accurate dimensions.
Thanks again, Tyler. :-)