why are some gimp images printing too light?

[A LeDonne]

On 5/16/06, joe <joe at tlnf.com> wrote:
> .
> When I print some images from Gimp or Kview or OO-Writer,
> images that appears solid black on the screen and when
> exported as pdf files, print grayed out (like about 50%)
> when printed to my HP 4 laser printer.  The laser printer
> is working fine and is printing solid black just fine from
> some other images and other applications.  I cannot find any
> settings in printer or document setup that might be causing
> this problem.
>
> Any suggestions how to chase down this problem?
>

Could be a colorspace issue in the PDF export... RGB Black does not
always translate to something that prints solid black if it ends up
CMYK, or even Grayscale. I wonder if those apps are all using the same
libs to export to PDF or not.

-A