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Printing on Large Format Paper... - pinegrovedave - 07-25-2021

Hello!

First time poster here with a question that is puzzling me. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. I have an image that is 3000x4000 pixels. According to GIMP, the image in inches is 10"x13" as seen in this pic...

 [Image: 1.png]

In scale image, it shows that as well...
[Image: 2.png] 


So I have some 13x19 photo paper that I want to print his on. I have the correct paper size selected...
 [Image: 3.png] 


Here's my print preview...
 [Image: 4.png] 


But then my result is this...What am I doing wrong in GIMP? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
[Image: result.jpg]

RE: Printing on Large Format Paper... - rich2005 - 07-25-2021

Printing from Gimp can be fraught... I once had a Canon inkjet that in theory printed from roll paper - great for panoramas - except there must have been a print buffer somewhere that ran out and truncated the print after about 14 inches.

However, assuming your printer will print 19 inches long in portrait mode. 
I would be inclined not to scale the image but adjust the printing resolution. Something like this.
The image print properties Image -> Print size as your image 3000 x 4000 px @ 300 ppi
Then in File -> Print the page setup and from there the custom paper size. (My current printer goes nowhere near 19")

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Then in the next tab,  Image settings, Change the resolution to suit, set the margins as required, enable Ignore Page margins.

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An alternative is not use Gimp for printing, maybe use LibreOffice.

edit: Just out of interest, which printer is it ? Can you use it with the gutenprint plugin ?

RE: Printing on Large Format Paper... - pinegrovedave - 07-25-2021

Thanks for the suggestion(s), I'll give it a try. As for my printer, it's a Canon Pixma Pro-100 so it'll do 13x19. Haven't tried the Gutenprint plugin. I'll check it out. Thanks again.

RE: Printing on Large Format Paper... - rich2005 - 07-25-2021

(07-25-2021, 06:07 PM)pinegrovedave Wrote: Thanks for the suggestion(s), I'll give it a try. As for my printer, it's a Canon Pixma Pro-100 so it'll do 13x19. Haven't tried the Gutenprint plugin. I'll check it out. Thanks again.

I think you will be out of luck. The official Canon site as usual only has drivers for OSX or Windows. https://i.imgur.com/P7LRB4h.jpg  and your Canon Pixma Pro-100 is not listed on the gutenprint site. A look at the 'buntu repo for Canon Printers only list a generic package. It will be the same for your distro. That is most probably your printing problem.

One way is to purchase a printer plugin https://www.turboprint.info/  I did that as well when I had that Canon printer. Not a great success, and not a lot of support. None, when I pointed out it would not use the black ink. They might have improved since then.

RE: Printing on Large Format Paper... - pinegrovedave - 07-25-2021

Well, I tried those settings in GIMP to no avail, but printing large format (13x19) out of LibreOffice Draw was a snap...just Format->Page Properties, change the height and width, insert the image and print. All too easy. Thanks for the tip Rich.