When I print out a certain picture the lines are disjointed like the printer skipped. This only happened with a particular image (no matter how many different copies I printed) with other pictures the lines came out fine so I know it isn't my printer

This message may actually win the award for least amount of info provided

So I assume it looks ok when you open it in Inkscape? Are you printing the SVG directly from Inkscape? Or exporting a PNG first? Have you done any kind of troubleshooting? Have you noticed anything significantly different about this file that doesn't print properly, and others that do?

Have you successfully printed another file, since this problem started?

I've never heard of anything like this. I have no idea if it will be necessary, but it might help if you could share the SVG file with us?? Either upload as an attachment to your reply, or to the host of your choice then provide us the link.

Maybe someone else will have some ideas. But if there is any other info you can provide.....at least Inkscape version and operating system, and anything that might be a clue about this.

Sorry for the lack of info, it's difficult to describe. Check out the attachment and look at the claws of the crab. the lines look jolted out of place. I'm printing directly from the svg file, from a bitmap image everything looks fine but prints out too blurry to use for what I am going for.

I've tried restarting the program, the computer, using different sizes of the picture, and readjusting the problem area lines. All to no avail. I've printed out a different picture since and it came out fine. What's a girl to do? *sniff

Hi.

I cannot observe any things that isn't normal in your pdf file.

A tip: If providing information about country in profile, it's easier for others to explain as location often gives a hint about how well one can assume you understand english.

My guess is that you want to align edges of canvas in Inkscape with physically edges of the print paper. I'm I right? No margins?

This is meant to be a card with a picture of a crab on the front, look carefully at the lines making up the claws on the crab. Notice how the lines don't match up? That is how the picture is being printed, despite being fine on the original svg file.

Oh yes, that IS strange!

Even though the image looks ok in the SVG, somehow the problem must be there. Can you provide the SVG file for us to examine?

I'm starting to think this could be a bug. What is your Inkscape version and operating system? Also printer brand (model # not necessary)?

I do notice that you have some blurring along the strokes of the crab claws (and other places). And the "skipping" (jaggedness) appears to occur near the ends of the blurred lines, in almost all cases. Is that how it's supposed to be, or is the blur supposed to extend through the skipped areas as well? If so, I'm wondering if somehow the printer could be having trouble with the blur (although I have no earthly idea how or why). This is probably just a coincidence, but I'm "grasping at straws" as the saying goes

Sorry but I need to ask more questions, just to be very clear.

• You can print some images from the Inkscape SVG, and not have any problems, correct?
• Do the files which have this problem, have this problem every time you print?
• Have any files with this problem ever started to print normally?
• Does this particular Inkscape SVG always show this problem, every time you try to print it? Is the problem identical every time -- meaning the "skips" occur in the same places, every time?
• Thinking of the files where you see this problem occur, and those where it doesn't occur, can you think of anything the problem files have in common, or anything the non-problem files have in common?

You know, I have an idea! There's a setting in Inkscape Preferences > Filters that affects the quality of the display. I learned about it when I was having strokes on the Inkscape canvas that looked similar to that. Sometimes they would look like that, and sometimes they didn't. When I posted a message about it, the reply was to change that display setting -- move it up a notch. (Even though it has a warning of slow display, I haven't noticed any slowness.) After that, I haven't seen the problem since. I'm wondering if somehow the printer "sees" the display differently than our eyes? Maybe changing that setting could help?

Beyond that, I have no better ideas

Hmm, the printer does have something to do with it. The printer giving me problems is an epson photo r2880. I printed it out on our regular HP printer and the lines came out fine. (However I need these printed with the fancy one!)

In answer to your questions:
* yes
*yes
*nope
*yes, they are in the same place
*This is the first time this has shown up, I've only printed one other picture that has shading (most of my prints are very simple)

Sigh, I did change the preferences for the 'filter effects quality' and 'Gaussen blur quality' to both best quality and lowest quality with no change.

I am currently using Inkscape 4.8

Starlight Juliet wrote:What's a girl to do? *sniff

Provide others access to the original SVG file you keep referring to in your comments (brynn already asked for it two times). Else there's not much we could tell you to help with this problem beyond mere speculation - based on that one PDF file which contains only a single embedded bitmap image and no vector-based content at all.

-> i.e. please attach the original SVG file (instead of what appears to be a scan of the printout, embedded in a PDF file).

Here you go.

No worries about the PDF, SJ. I did ask for a screenshot of the problem.

I'll look at your SVG file. But if you've already determined that the problem is with the printer, I'm not sure we can help. Way up there somewhere, Grobe asked something about margins. You might want to look into some of the printers' documentation. Clearly there's something about one of them that is different enough to cause this problem. I don't know what Grobe had in mind, but I think I'd start with margins. I'm pretty sure that printers have default margins programmed in, that have been known to cause some intereference when printing from Inkscape.

I know that this will be an extra step for you, so it might not be acceptable. But you could use File menu > Export Bitmap, and export a PNG. Since your goal is to print, it doesn't matter from what you print, right? Then you will find the PNG in your file manager, and either print from your file manager, or file viewer. Or import to Inkscape and try printing again. If you import back to Inkscape, and find the same problem, I would try printing from file viewer. If you still keep on having that same problem, I would look very closely at the printer itself. If it's malfunctioning and still under warranty, you should be able to get it fixed.

I'll post again if I see anything in the SVG file

Edit
I don't see any problem with the SVG.