I'm not sure if it's just the TIFs or if that related at all, since I have had some luck in printing these before, but recently the image viewer (eog - the Eye of GNOME, v 2.16.0.1) has responded to a print command on certain TIFs with nothing. Nothing shows up in the spool queue for the printer, and, although the printer (a Brother 2140 laser printer) heats up, it doesn't print anything at all.
Now, this is better than it printing hundreds of pages with indecipherable gobbledygook on them, but I'd really prefer the image itself.
Any ideas on what it might be?
My "standard" solution is to use either tiff2pdf or Adobe Photoshop Elements (in my virtual WIndows box) to convert them to PDFs, which then print just fine, but that's a real annoyance - tiff2pdf routinely generates enormous PDF files, and it takes a while to bring the XP VM out of hibernation, log in, open APE and run the conversion.
Other alternatives welcome....
mhr