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Running ImageMagick 6.6.1-10 2010-05-15 Q16 on Windows 2008 Server

Apologies of this is not the correct place to post this, please advise if it should be moved.

We are outputting a TIF and attempting to print it on a Creo RIP (CXP 6000 running version 4.1). The TIF as created by ImageMagick prints incorrectly (the image is sort of pixellated/scrambled, I can provide a scan if required) HOWEVER, if the TIF is simply opened and saved in another program manually e.g. Windows Picture Viewer, it prints fine.

Any advice?

Many thanks, Alex.

It is likely the Creo RIP does not support the entire TIFF standard. ImageMagick creates a valid TIFF but not one that the RIP can process. You can try upgrading your version of ImageMagick and see if that makes a difference. Otherwise compare the TIFF structure of the image produced by ImageMagick and the one by Windows Picture Viewer. There is a program called tiffinfo. For example on our Linux box we get:

• convert logo: logo.tif
  tiffinfo logo.tif
  
  TIFF Directory at offset 0x7f64 (32612)
  Image Width: 640 Image Length: 480
  Resolution: 72, 72 (unitless)
  Bits/Sample: 8
  Compression Scheme: LZW
  Photometric Interpretation: palette color (RGB from colormap)
  FillOrder: msb-to-lsb
  Orientation: row 0 top, col 0 lhs
  Samples/Pixel: 1
  Rows/Strip: 12
  Planar Configuration: single image plane
  Page Number: 0-1
  Color Map: (present)
  DocumentName: logo.tif
  ICC Profile: <present>, 3144 bytes