Leopard (10.5.2) and iPhoto 6.06 problems

Question

I just upgraded to 10.5.2 and am having difficulty using my Canon Pixma iP6600D printer. I can print from AppleWorks and web pages, however, when I attempt to print any pictures using iPhoto 6.06 the printer only goes a few lines and then stops. I have already downloaded the latest 10.5 drivers for the printer from Canon.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I have a feeling that I will have to go out and purchase the latest version of iPhoto.
Thanks,
JeffSh

Answer 1

In The Desert wrote:
Hi Thierry,
I have tried that too. It still does not make sense. I can print several pages of text and graphics from the internet with no problems. Then I try to print a picture using iPhoto 6.06 and it stops printing. I have also been able to use "Comic Life" without any problems, which also contains pictures.
Still puzzled????
JeffSh
Hi Jeff,
I understand it's puzzling. I can't decide for you. Here are some information for your understanding, that could help you.
I've just done this test for you:
- I've Paused the print spool for my office HP 4600 Color LaserJet
- I've queued one print job: one photo printed from iPhoto
- I've queued one other print job: a 5 pages Word document (with graphics in it)
Here is my CUPS (CUPS is the printing framework used by MacOSX) print spool queue. The "-155" job is the iPhoto job and "-156" is my Word job. The one-page iPhoto job is already 3 times bigger in bytes count than the Word 5 pages with graphics job.
When you say that your printer starts printing then pauses, it means to me you have a transmission problem somewhere. It can be the printer driver (PPD) not knowing exactly how much RAM you printer have. It can be many thing that cause your printer to not get the whole data set.
At home, I have an HP WiFi printer. It's fine for Word docs printing. But on some occasion, the WiFi thing simply doesn't work and get printings to stall half way done. So I prefer to hook my MBP on my Ethernet Switch and print while on 100baseT when I know I'm going to generate very big raster files.
This is only to get you some leads to look for other possible causes than just the application who generate the raster that then will be handled by many other OS layers.
I hope this helps.
Thierry
211pc21:~ thierryv$ sudo ls -lrt /var/spool/cups/
total 6040
(trimmed lines ...)
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9720 Mar 10 17:58 c00137
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9687 Mar 11 19:14 c00138
-rw------- 1 root _lp 14932 Mar 14 23:10 c00139
drwxrwxr-x 6 root _lp 204 Mar 19 14:04 cache
-rw------- 1 root _lp 8764 Mar 19 14:10 c00140
-rw------- 1 root _lp 15847 Mar 19 22:38 c00141
-rw------- 1 root _lp 14932 Mar 20 21:10 c00142
-rw------- 1 root _lp 14936 Mar 20 21:16 c00143
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9994 Mar 21 11:44 c00144
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9994 Mar 21 13:54 c00145
-rw------- 1 root _lp 10242 Mar 21 13:55 c00146
-rw------- 1 root _lp 8448 Mar 28 11:29 c00147
-rw------- 1 root _lp 10067 Apr 3 14:31 c00148
-rw------- 1 root _lp 10155 Apr 3 14:31 c00149
-rw------- 1 root _lp 7549 Apr 4 11:17 c00150
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9408 Apr 14 18:12 c00151
-rw------- 1 root _lp 10214 Apr 14 18:20 c00152
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9989 Apr 28 09:11 c00153
drwxrwx--T 2 root _lp 68 Apr 28 09:18 tmp
-rw------- 1 root _lp 10161 Apr 28 09:18 c00154
(here is what's important)
-rw-r----- 1 root _lp 1839473 Apr 29 09:13 d00155-001
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9676 Apr 29 09:13 c00155
-rw-r----- 1 root _lp 681417 Apr 29 09:17 d00156-001
-rw------- 1 root _lp 9893 Apr 29 09:17 c00156
(What jobs are currently queued ... all queues combined)
211pc21:~ thierryv$ lpstat
164_129_210232-155 thierryv 1840128 Tue Apr 29 09:13:11 2008
164_129_210232-156 thierryv 681984 Tue Apr 29 09:17:35 2008