try to print photo - and i get postscript text jibberish!?!

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bluesignsbluesigns
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Tibook 667mhz, 1/2 gig of ram, Jaguar 10.2.6:





try to print screenshots or psd and all i get are pages and pages of what look like postscript text jibberish.





i recently installed GIMP on an older pismo running 10.2.6 and it works perfectly with this epson printer.



but now i installed GIMP to get this epson printer working for this 667 Tibook and i've got jibberish.



there was a full boat of apps on this machine when i got it and i don't have time to wipe the drive and reinstall everything.



there was an HP printer, another epson printer, and "Adobe PDF" set up as the available printers by the former owner. i trashed the HP and the older epson but left the "Adobe PDF".



i'd never seen "Adobe PDF" set up as an available printer. i thought that was weird but didn't want to just trash it without investigating a little.

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    aquafireaquafire Posts: 2,758member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bluesigns

    Tibook 667mhz, 1/2 gig of ram, Jaguar 10.2.6:





    try to print screenshots or psd and all i get are pages and pages of what look like postscript text jibberish.





    i recently installed GIMP on an older pismo running 10.2.6 and it works perfectly with this epson printer.



    but now i installed GIMP to get this epson printer working for this 667 Tibook and i've got jibberish.



    there was a full boat of apps on this machine when i got it and i don't have time to wipe the drive and reinstall everything.



    there was an HP printer, another epson printer, and "Adobe PDF" set up as the available printers by the former owner. i trashed the HP and the older epson but left the "Adobe PDF".



    i'd never seen "Adobe PDF" set up as an available printer. i thought that was weird but didn't want to just trash it without investigating a little.



    I presume you have Acrobat reader.
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    Adobe PDF is installed as a printer when Acrobat (full version) is installed - it's to make print-quality PDF files from anything (higher quality than using the system's print-to-pdf feature). In other words, Distiller is installed.



    From what programs are you printing? And to what Epson printer are you printing?
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    yes, Acrobat is on here;

    Acrobat Professional 6.0

    Acrobat Distiller 6.0





    i tried printing screenshots from Preview and since that didn't work i opened the screenshot in Photoshop 7, saved it as a psd and tried printing that - no go.





    at the top of the page that prints i get:



    %!PS-Adobe-3.0

    %%Title: (Picture 1.psd)

    %%Creator: (Photoshop: pictwpstops filter 1.0)



    the first line of is always the same:

    %!PS-Adobe-3.0



    whether i print from Photoshop or Preview or even when i tried to print some code from Dreamweaver [and it failed with printing jibberish] it still printed the same first line of:

    %!PS-Adobe-3.0



    so i guess it's a postscript problem but what exactly do i look next?
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  • Reply 4 of 5
    graphicumpgraphicump Posts: 82member
    Sounds like a postscript encoding error...what printer? What gimp-print driver? Did you install Ghostscript?
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    GIMP-Print 4.2.5



    and i couldn't remeber for sure if i installed GhostScript on this machine

    [i just successfully went through this whole thing on a pismo]



    so now i've got GhostScript 7.05.5 installed.



    printer=Epson PhotoEX



    i just tried to test print and i've still got jibberish.



    grr.
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