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]

Appears that the coated paper choice along with 1200dpi also turns blue. So far only plain paper and 1200dpi combination gives faithful colors. This combination works well on Matte Kodak photo paper, but with a lower-resolution image like the 3MP pictures I used, the 1200dpi output cannot be distinguished from the 600dpi output.

Will swap to drivers from ftp site and try again at some stage, and if I can get the right colors will try a scanned 1200dpi image as a test.

This is of course nothing to do with PMView, all Lexmark driver issues.

As an aside, when PMViews print an image set to custom size based on pixel width (in the examples above width 4608 - three times the original) what does the dithering/interpolation PMView or the printer driver? And why does setting the printer to 1200dpi not halve the size of the output? Does the printer driver further interpolate from 600dpi to 1200dpi? If I set the printer to 1200dpi and then choose a custom size of 9216, will it think I need 4 pages instead of 9216/1200 approx. 7.7" x 10.2" size.

Regards,
Russell