won’t print to kodak printer

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oldtee
Jan 12, 2008
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I have a new 5500 Kodak printer and new to me adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and I cannot get the damn thing to print. I have tried no end of settings and it just won’t print. The printer keeps giving me a wrong size paper message. I have tried everything but throw the both of them in the lake (if I had one nearby). There must be a secret that is not apparant to this computer illerate old goat. 🙁 Help.
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TK
Toobi-Won Kenobi
Jan 12, 2008
"oldtee" wrote in message
I have a new 5500 Kodak printer and new to me adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and I cannot get the damn thing to print. I have tried no end of settings and it just won’t print. The printer keeps giving me a wrong size paper message. I have tried everything but throw the both of them in the lake (if I had one nearby). There must be a secret that is not apparant to this computer illerate old goat. 🙁 Help.
Can you print from Notepad?
Try the following.
Go to Start>Printers and Faxes and click on it.
In the dialogue box you should see your printer listed, if you don’t it’s not installed.
Right click on it and select Properties.
One of the tabs at the top (usually Device Settings) should allow you to see what paper size it is expecting.
Change accordingly.
When you have done this, try it and report back.
I’ve never used Elements.
TWK
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Jim
Jan 12, 2008
"oldtee" wrote in message
I have a new 5500 Kodak printer and new to me adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and I cannot get the damn thing to print. I have tried no end of settings and it just won’t print. The printer keeps giving me a wrong size paper message. I have tried everything but throw the both of them in the lake (if I had one nearby). There must be a secret that is not apparant to this computer illerate old goat. 🙁 Help.
That message must come from the printer driver.
What size is the image?
What orientation (portrait vs landscape)?
What size paper have you specified?
Doesn’t the printer manual describe how to print in great detail? All programs like PSE, PS, Notepad, or OE do is pass the image to the printer.
Thus if you are having trouble, your problem must be that you are not telling the printer driver correct information.
Jim
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oldtee
Jan 13, 2008
Tried one note but couldn’t figure out what I was trying to do. Pic in one note was not correct. Re: settings, reset to factory defaults, still no joy. It seems to me that this is a stupid mismatch between vendors. I should be able to display a picture in adobe and simply poke print, and if the picture won’t fit it should ask something like ‘resize to media yes or no?’ then print. Any other suggestions?
"oldtee" wrote in message
I have a new 5500 Kodak printer and new to me adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and I cannot get the damn thing to print. I have tried no end of settings and it just won’t print. The printer keeps giving me a wrong size paper message. I have tried everything but throw the both of them in the lake (if I had one nearby). There must be a secret that is not apparant to this computer illerate old goat. 🙁 Help.
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Jim
Jan 13, 2008
"oldtee" wrote in message
Tried one note but couldn’t figure out what I was trying to do. Pic in one note was not correct. Re: settings, reset to factory defaults, still no joy. It seems to me that this is a stupid mismatch between vendors. I should be able to display a picture in adobe and simply poke print, and if the picture won’t fit it should ask something like ‘resize to media yes or no?’ then print. Any other suggestions?
"oldtee" wrote in message
I have a new 5500 Kodak printer and new to me adobe Photoshop Elements 6 and I cannot get the damn thing to print. I have tried no end of settings and it just won’t print. The printer keeps giving me a wrong size paper message. I have tried everything but throw the both of them in the lake (if I had one nearby). There must be a secret that is not apparant to this computer illerate old goat. 🙁 Help.
Printing does not work like that. Instead, you are responsible for telling the printer driver how
you want the print to be displayed. However, if you tell the driver to print on paper which does
not support your instructions, the printer driver will not obey. For example, if you tell an epson
printer driver to print borderless on paper which does not support borderless printing, the driver
will not do print.

And, if you tell the printer driver to print an image in landscape mode when the image is in
protrait mode, the driver may print it, but it will be clipped.

Jim

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