Lines printed across photos

[Sawday]

My wife uses and Epson Workforce printer. When printing photos, specifically images of people in .jpg form, there are always lines printed across the image. However, when printing graphic images (pdf's or jpgs) no lines occur. Print heads have been cleaned and alignment checked, both frequently and new ink cartridges installed. This make no sense to me so any ideas?

 

[pm-r]

My wife uses and Epson Workforce printer. When printing photos, specifically images of people in .jpg form, there are always lines printed across the image.

Are the printing options exactly the same when printing photos or graphics, such as paper type and quality?

What photo application is she using? Is it a shareware or commercial application that hasn't been paid for?

How she tried printing the photos using Preview application, or is that what she is currently using?



- Patrick
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[Sawday]

Printer options unchanged (she would not know how to change them!) Printed from Preview, Photos, Adobe Acrobat or sometimes by copying into Word and printing from that.

 

[MacInWin]

Printer options unchanged (she would not know how to change them!) Printed from Preview, Photos, Adobe Acrobat or sometimes by copying into Word and printing from that.

You have not said if all of those apps produce the same results. So, there are two options:

If the lines are there for some of those apps and not for others, the printer settings in the individual APP may need to be adjusted. In addition to the overall system printer settings, some apps also have internal options for printing. Microsoft is particularly guilty of that.

If the lines are there for ALL apps, then I cannot think of how that could be that some jpg's producce lines and others do not, which is what you said in post #1.

 

[Sawday]

Thank you for your replies Jake and Patrick. After more experimentation on my iMac and my printers (Epson B1100 and old Espon R300) I have discovered that the lines do not appear when printed from Photoshop Elements (and are better quality too) even with no editing in PS. I don't get the lines that my wife experianced when printing from Preview or Word either, but quality is better from PS. Therefore I deduce that it's something to do with the printer drivers (may not be the most accurate technical term) used by the various programs. No idea why it's only photos that have lines but not graphic images on wife's Epson printer even though both are in jpg format, but I guess that's maybe photos are more complex. As a permanent workaround I have installed an unused older version of PS Elements on her laptop and this prints just fine to her printer. So, a bit of a pain but at last my wife can print great colour images.