Has any one seen this before. THis only occurs if the fill color of the rectagle is other than white or black. I have tried destorying the active and stack palettes but no luck. If I reset the printer looks good good but on a seperate page. Also, I have tried to vary the order of the output no change. Using Image Magick to convert a jpg.
Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations wOOdy-Soft on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
Color Image is filled with Fill color of a rectangle 1
- Thread starter jpogriff
- Start date
-
1
- #2
Without having somewhat more information, it is difficult to guess just what your problem is, and hence what may be causing it.
Please provide more precise symptoms and details of your PCL.
As a wild guess, it could be something to do with Foreground Colour, but I may be totally misinterpreting your description, and hence this may be way off-mark.
Please provide more precise symptoms and details of your PCL.
As a wild guess, it could be something to do with Foreground Colour, but I may be totally misinterpreting your description, and hence this may be way off-mark.
- Thread starter
- #3
Dans,
I think you are correct. Here are to files:
Here the image is good.
When I set the fill area to be yellow you will see the whole image is printed in just yellow.
Can you see this? Really appreciate the help!
James
I think you are correct. Here are to files:
Here the image is good.
When I set the fill area to be yellow you will see the whole image is printed in just yellow.
Can you see this? Really appreciate the help!
James
There is only one byte different between your two PCL files, at displacement 3835; analysis of the 'bad' file around this displacement shows:
(the above text may not wrap very well within the Tek-Tips page).
The equivalent 'good' file uses:
Also, earlier in (both) files, there are instances of using coloured filled rectangles, but these are followed by a reset to foreground colour zero (which is Black in the RGB simple colour palette):
so why not place a reset to colour zero in front of the escape sequence at displacement 3842?
Code:
[sub]
0000003802 PCL Complex <Esc>*p165X Cursor Position (PCL units): Horizontal
0000003809 PCL Complex <Esc>*p1450Y Cursor Position (PCL units): Vertical
0000003817 PCL Complex <Esc>*c4585A Rectangle Size (PCL units): Horizontal
0000003825 PCL Complex <Esc>*c400B Rectangle Size (PCL units): Vertical
0000003832 PCL Complex <Esc>*v3S Foreground Colour
0000003837 PCL Complex <Esc>*c0P Fill Rectangular Area: Solid Area
0000003842 PCL Complex <Esc>&p1S Select Palette
0000003847 PCL Complex <Esc>*p200X Cursor Position (PCL units): Horizontal
0000003854 PCL Complex <Esc>*p200Y Cursor Position (PCL units): Vertical
0000003861 PCL Complex <Esc>*r3F Raster Graphics Presentation: Physical
0000003866 PCL Complex <Esc>*t300R Raster Graphics Resolution (dpi)
0000003873 PCL Complex <Esc>*r300T Raster Height (raster rows): Source
0000003880 PCL Complex <Esc>*r300S Raster Width (pixels): Source
0000003887 PCL Complex <Esc>*v6W Configure Image Data
0000003892 PCL Binary [ 6 bytes ]
0000003898 PCL Complex <Esc>*r1A Start Raster Graphics: Left Margin at X
0000003903 PCL Complex <Esc>*b0Y Y Offset (raster lines)
0000003908 PCL Complex <Esc>*b0M Set Compression Mode: Unencoded
0000003913 PCL Complex <Esc>*b900W Transfer Raster Data (Row/Block)
0000003920 PCL Binary [ 172 bytes ]
0000004092 PCL Binary [ 728 bytes ]
0000004820 PCL Complex <Esc>*b900W Transfer Raster Data (Row/Block)
0000004827 PCL Binary [ 900 bytes ]
[/sub]The equivalent 'good' file uses:
Code:
[sub]
0000003832 PCL Complex <Esc>*v0S
[/sub]Also, earlier in (both) files, there are instances of using coloured filled rectangles, but these are followed by a reset to foreground colour zero (which is Black in the RGB simple colour palette):
Code:
[sub]
0000000271 PCL Complex <Esc>*p165X Cursor Position (PCL units): Horizontal
0000000278 PCL Complex <Esc>*p3200Y Cursor Position (PCL units): Vertical
0000000286 PCL Complex <Esc>*c4420A Rectangle Size (PCL units): Horizontal
0000000294 PCL Complex <Esc>*c3B Rectangle Size (PCL units): Vertical
0000000299 PCL Complex <Esc>*v9S Foreground Colour
0000000304 PCL Complex <Esc>*c0P Fill Rectangular Area: Solid Area
0000000309 PCL Complex <Esc>*p1400X Cursor Position (PCL units): Horizontal
0000000317 PCL Complex <Esc>*p775Y Cursor Position (PCL units): Vertical
0000000324 PCL Complex <Esc>(8U Primary Symbol Set
0000000328 PCL Complex <Esc>(s1p Primary Spacing: Proportional
0000000333 10v Primary Height (points)
0000000336 0s Primary Style
0000000338 0b Primary Stroke Weight: Medium
0000000340 5T Primary Typeface
0000000342 PCL Complex <Esc>*v0S Foreground Colour
0000000347 Data Counselor
[/sub]- Thread starter
- #5
Dans, Thanks for the information it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black. I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted. Turns out that imagemagick is also only converting the image @ 72dpi in the binary some I am told... I am going to do some more looking. I have contacted a programmer at HP to see if he can have someone look at is as well. What program did you use to read the file? Thanks again for the help. Not really sure what else it could be. No image works fine with an image other issue arise...
it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black. I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted"
You need to be more specific.
"Turns out that imagemagick is also only converting the image @ 72dpi in the binary some I am told..."
Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult.
"What program did you use to read the file?"
See thread286-1031037 for detail.
"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."
Not sure what you mean.
You need to be more specific.
"Turns out that imagemagick is also only converting the image @ 72dpi in the binary some I am told..."
Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult.
"What program did you use to read the file?"
See thread286-1031037 for detail.
"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."
Not sure what you mean.
- Thread starter
- #7
Dans,
"it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black. I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted"
"You need to be more specific."
Othe fill areas will be black and not the correct fill color. <Esc>*v4S Files with the image printered before or after the fill areas are the same with the exception that the imae is moved.
"Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult."
The image was rendered from vector art out of illustrator and the raterized in photoshop 7 to 300 x 300.
Thats too bad about the program. I thank you for reading it... If things change please let me know.
"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."
It was a long day.. If I do not print an image at all the the document looks fine. If I do print an image the the are the issues we have been discussing.
Does this make sense?
"it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black. I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted"
"You need to be more specific."
Othe fill areas will be black and not the correct fill color. <Esc>*v4S Files with the image printered before or after the fill areas are the same with the exception that the imae is moved.
"Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult."
The image was rendered from vector art out of illustrator and the raterized in photoshop 7 to 300 x 300.
Thats too bad about the program. I thank you for reading it... If things change please let me know.
"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."
It was a long day.. If I do not print an image at all the the document looks fine. If I do print an image the the are the issues we have been discussing.
Does this make sense?
- Thread starter
- #8
Figured it out..
I have to set the font color to black befor images data.
*v0S
Then image data.
Then reset the color plane
*v6W" CHR(2) + CHR(3) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8).
v255a213b209c8I".
v146a51b51c9I".
Hope this can help someone else.....
Dans thanks for all your help on this one.
James
I have to set the font color to black befor images data.
*v0S
Then image data.
Then reset the color plane
*v6W" CHR(2) + CHR(3) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8).
v255a213b209c8I".
v146a51b51c9I".
Hope this can help someone else.....
Dans thanks for all your help on this one.
James
- Status
Similar threads
- Locked
- Question
- Locked
- Question