[softwarelist] Re: Really, really 'Colour printing from OvPro'

  • From: "Chris Bell (Lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 19:50:53 +0100

Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Chris Bell (Lists)" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I've produced a 2-sided OvnPro document which includes some colour
> > photos:
> >    www.prostate-cancer-support.co.uk/docs/sponsor2012
> > If I print this direct to my PS printer (using a PS2 or PS3 driver)
> > then the printed colours are awful - as if they've been reduced to
> > just a handful of full tones.

> I printed this to a file using the PS3 driver and looked at the file 
> (2,617,118 bytes) and all the colour information is there, so the 
> degradation of quality happens inside your printer. Maybe it has run 
> out of memory?

> You can improve the chances of printing these images correctly by
> allowing OvationPro and the PostScript driver to pass them to your
> printer in their original format, i.e., as compressed JPEGs. At the
> moment, OvationPro has to expand them to uncompressed full colour
> bitmaps because you have some picture processing applied. Please note
> that you cannot remove the processing once applied, so in order to
> try this you need to delete the frames and reimport the images.

> Martin

Many thanks, Martin.  That sounds very feasable.  I'll check it later
on and report back.

Chris.

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