PMView 2000/Lexmark Z51/OS2 prints bluish - Printing from PMView 2000 in OS2 Options

[Guest_Russell Kneebone_*]

Pictures taken on a Canon A70 (3.2 MP - 2048 x 1536) sent to Lexmark Z51 with resolution 600dpi and customer size set to 4608 x 6144 print fine on Letter paper, but same pictures printed with resolution set to 1200dpi print very blue. Not sure whether this is Lexmark driver issue, OS/2 bitmap size issue, PMView 200 issue or mixture.

Same pictures printed "Fit resolution" (i.e. crossways on Letter paper - 4096 x 3072?) print fine in either 600dpi and 1200dpi; actually there is no discernible difference in the output!

Has anyone else come across this issue?

Regards,
Russell

[rkneebon]

Actually it seems to be a Lexmark driver issue.

For some reason the color output in 600dpi stays the same no matter the choice of paper, but at 1200dpi there is a pronounced shift to blue if you choose Glossy/Photo. I hadn't been using the glossy paper for the "fit resolution" tests until after I posted and found that the Glossy/1200 combination affected the smaller prints as well. Will try other paper types/settings and report back.

By the way, the output at 600dpi is excellent! Slightly soft, being from a dithered 200dpi print I guess, but there is still more detail visible from this 8x10 size print than from the smaller 5x7. People at work asked me if I had a special printer!

Regards,
Russell