Quoth Veall, Crispin on or about 2004-09-08:
Hi All, I seem to be having great difficulties printing anything from inkscape onto my printer (Epson Stylus Photo 870). If I attempt to print anything, it comes out as a large grey square, with the vaguest hint of the darkest parts of the image elongated down the right-hand side. I've tried using print direct, print image as bitmap and piping through lp, and kprinter, to no avail. I can print out to a laser printer at work, but that's a raw PS one. Any suggestions on what to check, how to narrow down the culprit, or how to clarify what's wrong most welcome.
I've tried to compile inkscape with --gnome-print, but that completely failed (I've raised a bug on this).
I'll start with a couple of stupid questions:
* Can you print from other applications?
* If so, which ones?
* What printing interface are you using (e.g. CUPS, lprng)?
* Can you export to PS / PNG, then import and print from the GIMP[0]?
-trent
[0] I think the GIMP has extra magic on top of CUPS somehow.