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Hello - Several months ago, I moved from an older MacG3 running os9 to a new iMacg5 running os 10.3.
I have an Epson stylus 875dc Photo inkjet printer. I was always very pleased with the quality of my printed photos and other work from the 875dc. I used Macromedia freehand with linked photos, Adobe photoshop for printing photos.
Now, I try to print from iPhoto or Adobe Photo elements and my pictures look like dookey. The colors are not great, the resolution is not great and worst of all, if I try to print at higher resolution, I get all these horizontal lines through the picture and in the margin of the pictures.
I have tried to get some help from Epson - they have had me print a test page, etc. which was fine... so they say it's the computer or the software.
I am very frustrated and hate the thought of throwing out a perfectly good printer. Can anyone help me into the right direction?

Did you check for a blocked head? Also, in PE/PS, having a resolution ppi that's not a whole number can cause lines on prints. In other words, 247 ppi is fine, but if you see 247.384 when you go to Image>Resize>Resize Image, you may have problems.

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