Build : 'L'
OS : Win95/98 (Sol, NT...ok)

Everything is printed in B&W on 95/98. No levels of gray to represent color.

See attached testcase.
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This problem appears specific to PCL printers on win95/98.
The printers are not colour printers.
The same code works fine on NT
There are two different manifestations depending on whether the page
is printed using the raster or path graphics implementations.

If the raster path is invoked inside the implementation the page is
completely mangled with the scan stride appearing incorrect.

This is true as far back as 1.2FCS.

In kestrel beta, images can now be printed through the path graphics pipe.
There the page appears correct in pixel alignment, but a thresholding effect
is now apparent which makes the image pixels either black or white, rather
than using the printer's resolution to create a greyscale effect.


channasubbanna.prasad@eng 2000-08-11

We are experiencing problems printing images (PNG, JPEG, GIF) from an
applet running inside Java Plug-in 1.3 on Windows95 machines. Our
problems range from "no graphics at all" to "very unusable quality
images". The printers are of PCL type. The same applet prints
beautifully from NT 4.0 boxes to the same printers.

This internet application is aimed at our 43 million members who have
low end deskjet printers that do not have postscript capabilities.
Case in point is an HP DeskJet 950C Color printer.

The text on the page prints very well on all printers tested so far.
The rectangle around the image (drawn with a drawRect) shows up in all
cases. The image does not.

List of printers reporting problems:
HP 950C Color DeskJet (majority at beta sites - no image at all)
HP 2100TN (no image at all)
HP LJ3 Laser B&W (no image at all)
HP LJ5N Laser B&W (no image at all)
HP 4500N (works well with a PS driver, prints very bad graphics with a PCL
driver)


Please find attached a testcase which demonstrates this problem.
(AAAtestcase.tar.Z - you will have to supply your image to test this applet.)
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heidi.chen@eng 2001-03-14
Verified on Ladybird build 14 with win98/95.
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