Canon i860 will not correctly print photos from older camera

[HistoryFan]

Hello. My PC is running XP Home SP2. My printer is a Canon i860.
Yesterday, I was trying to print out some old pictures (in JPEG format)
taken by a cheap-quality digital camera (Creative PC-CAM 350) that I don't
use anymore. The images were not very sharp, but you could definitely make
them out.

Anyway, whenever I tried to print out an image, the picture was
completely blurred and smeared. Nothing distinguishable came out. The
preview option with the Windows Photo Printing Wizard also depicted the
photos coming out messed up.

All other photos on my computer, including those taken with my new
digital camera print out perfectly, and they also preview just fine. Any
ideas why this glitch happened?

 

[HistoryFan]

I should add that the images (from the old camera) only print out
wrong when I go thru the Photo Printing Wizard. I just printed out one of
those pics using the IrfanView program and it came out fine. As I said
before, all other pics work just fine with the Photo Printing Wizard.

 

[Bill]

I should add that the images (from the old camera) only print out
wrong when I go thru the Photo Printing Wizard. I just printed out one of
those pics using the IrfanView program and it came out fine. As I said
before, all other pics work just fine with the Photo Printing Wizard.

It might be a compatibility issue with Windows and the old JPEG format
used by the camera, although I haven't heard of this issue before.

And since it only happens with that combination, don't use them.

 

[Bernie]

Hello. My PC is running XP Home SP2. My printer is a Canon i860.
Yesterday, I was trying to print out some old pictures (in JPEG format)
taken by a cheap-quality digital camera (Creative PC-CAM 350) that I don't
use anymore. The images were not very sharp, but you could definitely make
them out.

Anyway, whenever I tried to print out an image, the picture was
completely blurred and smeared. Nothing distinguishable came out. The
preview option with the Windows Photo Printing Wizard also depicted the
photos coming out messed up.

All other photos on my computer, including those taken with my new
digital camera print out perfectly, and they also preview just fine. Any
ideas why this glitch happened?

You didn't say what layout you specified to the Wizard, nor what the
resolution/size of your older jpg's are. Chances are your newer jpg's
are a much higher resolution that the older ones.

If you let the Wizard try to print large pictures from low resolution
jpg's the system tries to enlarge your jpg's, and the results will be
disappointing. Is that your situation? If you select "contact sheet"
for the layout does the problem go away?

Bernie

 

[HistoryFan]

You didn't say what layout you specified to the Wizard, nor what the
resolution/size of your older jpg's are. Chances are your newer jpg's are
a much higher resolution that the older ones.

None of the Wizard layouts worked with the photos from the older
camera. Dimensions are 352x288, size around 28kb.

 

[HistoryFan]

If you select "contact sheet"
for the layout does the problem go away?

Let me correct myself a bit. The problem photos WILL display when I
use the "contact sheet" layout. But I would never want to use that
particular setting because the images are too small. The other layouts
don't work.

 

[David Gerard]

Not sure but it sounds like you are trying to print a thumbnail image
(albeit large) (352x288) as a full sized print. Resolution problem betwwen
print and display resolution....David

 

[PC Medic]

Hello. My PC is running XP Home SP2. My printer is a Canon i860.
Yesterday, I was trying to print out some old pictures (in JPEG format)
taken by a cheap-quality digital camera (Creative PC-CAM 350) that I don't
use anymore. The images were not very sharp, but you could definitely
make them out.

Anyway, whenever I tried to print out an image, the picture was
completely blurred and smeared. Nothing distinguishable came out. The
preview option with the Windows Photo Printing Wizard also depicted the
photos coming out messed up.

All other photos on my computer, including those taken with my new
digital camera print out perfectly, and they also preview just fine. Any
ideas why this glitch happened?

Yes they are old low res images from a cheap digital camera that do not even
preview properly.
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