Printing stops with Quadtone RIP on 2200 .....

DianeFields · #1 03-03-2005, 05:19 PM

Hopefully someone here will have a fix. I've posted on the Digital B/W List too (plus the printer forum in dpreview--covering all my bases LOL).

I do a lot of monotone printing and have been reasonably happy with toned prints on my 2200 for the last 2+ years altho' I keep toying with making my 1280 a dedicated b/w printer. However, after reading about the Quadtone RIP, I decided to try it. I dled it, did the processing as instructed in help and printed 5 prints (same image tiff image file) in different curves. All went fine and I was very excited feeling I could find the right curve set for me. Then--came the 6th and the printer will not print. It pulls the paper in, does one pass and then spits it out. I uninstalled, restarted, reinstalled and even the same curve/blend set was there (leads me to believe that it didn't uninstall everything). I did a debug (got the right windows), took that off and tried again. I brought up the spooling and watched as I hit print. It spools to the printer but the file almost immediately disappears. I don't have a clue what's happening. To be sure it wasn't a printer problem, I printed from PSCS as normal--and it was fine.

Hope someone can tell me what to do because I think this is my answer for b/w printing and I was prepared to send my shareware amount via paypal. I haven't seen anyone else mentioning this problem.

Diane B.

Per_Ofverbeck · #2 03-04-2005, 06:34 AM

Well, if it is any comfort, my setup occasionally does the same (which no other printer driver has ever done), only the spitting-out luckily occurs before any ink has hit the paper. It IS a bl--y nuisance, and I don´t have any explanation. Every time it happens, I stop the printer driver. purge the printing queue, turn the printer off, then on, restart the driver, load the paper, and print again from PS. That (plus a frightening amount of inspired swearing) always does the trick for me.

DianeFields · #3 03-04-2005, 09:14 AM

Thanks Per. This seems to be totally related to the RIP and not the driver. I uninstalled, deleted the Qadtone RIP folder including the log and the bin folder, downloaded a new copy of the RIP, installed and all is well. I should have come back and explained this. Also--someone on the Digital B/W Print maillist point out to me that I didn't have the newest version so and uninstall and reinstall is called for this morning so I don't encounter this again (I hope). BTW--the problem is that there was nothing in the queue--the file could disappear almost immediately--but the printer would work directly out of PSCS. I've printed with my 2200 for over 2 years and had really good luck with the drivers (upgraded at least once)--but this RIP didn't get along with something LOL--now it appears to do so.

Diane

Chuck_Kimmerle · #4 03-04-2005, 09:58 AM

I know this may seem overly basic, but are you sure the image is correctly placed on the page template? Can't say this has ever happened to me, so I have no other idea.

Chuck

Per_Ofverbeck · #5 03-04-2005, 04:11 PM

No, Chuck, that´s not it (for me, at least). First, after that exercise with stopping, purging, and restarting, the very same PS settings do produce a print. Second, by now I´ve done quite a lot of prints with both PSCS and earlier versions, and this has never happened with anything else than QTR.

Diane´s observation about updating gives me a lot of hope; I´m still running the original version as first installed.

And, to put things in the proper perspective, for me this is only a small occasional nuisance, not a major problem. Even as is, QTR is a major step towards producing B/W inkprints that are rivalling my very best silver prints from the "smelly dungeon" days. I´m even tempted to write "the final step"...