[osxrules]

I was just printing an A3 TIFF file scanned at 300dpi on an epson stylus photo 1290 and the output was terrible. The colours were wrong, the whole page was very blocky/jagged and there was some graininess. I wasted about 10 prints on trying to get it right but no such luck.

I boot back into OS 9, print the exact same image and it comes out perfectly first go (so I at least know it wasn't the scan software). Excellent colour and no artifacts whatsoever. Also, I'm able to do edge to edge printing with the click of a button in OS 9 - where did that feature go in OS X?

Am I doing something wrong because I'm sure I heard OS X was better for printing?

I've just got the latest drivers from epson so I'll try them. It may well be that I was using old ones or Apple supplied ones but whatever it is, it's totally unnacceptable output. If someone could let me know how to avoid jagged output (if drivers might be the cause) or how to set edge to edge printing without making a custom sheet for every paper size with margins set to zero, I would be very grateful.

[Amorya]

Edge to edge is a driver function - my HP driver does it fine. Maybe your new drivers will help!

Never had the jagginess problem. What program were you printing the image from?


Amorya

[osxrules]

Originally posted by Amorya:
Edge to edge is a driver function - my HP driver does it fine. Maybe your new drivers will help!

Never had the jagginess problem. What program were you printing the image from?


Amorya

Thanks for the info, I'll see if the driver helps. I assumed that all the OS X apps used the same print dialog. I didn't know some drivers gave extra options.

I made the print from Photoshop 7. I also tried from Freehand 10, though and still the same problem. Freehand 8 on OS 9 was the one that worked fine.

[osxrules]

Nooooo. The new drivers are just as bad and no extra dialog has been added to allow edge to edge printing.

Does anyone know if gimp-print drivers are a good choice? I wouldn't have thought 3rd party drivers would be better than the Epson drivers.

Looks like I'm back to OS 9 again. I might contact Epson and see what reply I get. I tried printing an A6 picture and it came out extremely small. I think this may be the problem. It seems as though it's making a small version of some things and printing it huge thus making it jagged.

There might be some setting that needs changing somewhere. Anyone know if there's a checkbox somewhere that tells OS X to print previews/thumbnails?