How Do I Print Photos?
- by Takkat
Other than for Windows in Ubuntu there are no fancy utilities provided from printer manufacturers to print photos. I am aware of Gnome Photo Printer and of Photoprint, the first being easy to handle, the latter having more options. However I wonder if there are any other or maybe even better alternatives (including plugins) to perform the following tasks:
Print photos in the best photo-resolution the driver offers
Adjust paper size for standard values of photo papers
Choose paper tray if the printer has more than one
Print out multiple photos on one page including mixed sizes (grids)
Multiple prints with same settings
Borderless printing if the printer is capable of this
Any additional options like pre-processing for color correction or noise reduction would be nice to have but are not so essential.
Update
According to this spec it seems not to so easy to accomplish the simple task of printing photos.
Indeed all applications I have gone through have major drawbacks that make printing photos almost impossible. Below I will list what put me off using them for photo printing:
Gnome Photo Printer: no thumbnails, no grids
Photoprint: does not keep settings, GUI broken, no standard photo size, no thumbs
Eye Of Gnome: no multiple pages, no grids
Gimp + Images Grid Layout: far too many steps to finally find that prints are always different to their previews.
F-Spot: no grids
Picasa 3: no grids, very few fixed paper sizes, 300 dpi only
flPhoto: strange GUI, no thumbs, no printer settings, did not print at all
Windows: Ooops - everything works fine! But I want Ubuntu to do this!
After half a pack of ink cartridges and half a pack of photo paper cards I am getting tired of testing. At least Gimp and Picasa looked promising but both don't keep their promise when it comes to printing. I'd already be happy to quickly print a few photos with EOG if bug #80220 was fixed - but it's still on "wishlist".
