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Programming Languages: Perl, C

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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  • Comment: Large graphics cause bars

    Correct. This driver emits a print language which supports compressed bands at most 64KB in size. Unfortunately some graphics-heavy or otherwise high frequency content tends to compress to sizees larger than that, so they just can't be printed using the Samsung-provided code. I put in a hack that makes it print anyway; basically it blurs the band repeatedly until the compressor produces a...

    2007-08-29 17:59:03 UTC by nobody

  • Large graphics cause bars

    I have trouble printing large images with the SAMSUNG ML-1410. The height of the picture is right but it has either wihte or 'greyed' bars in the print. The easiest way for me to test is using xsane to make a copy of an A4 paper, e.g. a business letter. I tried to copy the graphics into an open office document to print, but the problem persists. I tried to print with the Ubuntu 7.10 live CD, the...

    2007-01-28 15:31:14 UTC by pinus

  • foomatic-rip memleak

    Printing to a Lexmark Z51 under Fedora Core 6, I experience recurring memory leaks with foomatic-rip. A typical example: * I am printing a PDF document in evince. * The print job terminates part way through. * foomatic-rip rapidly starts eating up all available memory (1GB ram, 1GB swap) * In some cases, I am able to kill it in terminal; in other it chokes my system, requiring a...

    2006-12-30 11:13:23 UTC by matamoros

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