Printing from Gimp -
Bob Goodwin
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Mon Aug 28 10:43:32 UTC 2006
Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
>> David C. Chipman wrote:
>>> Hi Bob,
>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what I have to do to print from Gimp?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you have gimp-print-cups available? That might also
>>> help. I have it installed on my machine here (FC5, gimp-print-cups ver.
>>> 4.2.7-16). That should expand your choice of available printers (The
>>> summary for this package reads: " CUPS drivers for Canon, Epson, HP and
>>> compatible printers"). I hope this helps.
>>> -David Chipman
>>>
>> Ok, I tried yum install gimp-print-cups but that had no effect on
>> Gimp printing that I could determine? I then finished the "make
>> install"
>> of gutenprint which had no effect on gimp printing but it did add a huge
>> list of printer drivers to CUPS! However still no HP6840 is shown in
>> the list. The only way I can select HP6840 is from KDE which means I
>> have
>> to "switchdesk" from XFCE which is not a problem since it only needs to
>> be done once.
>>
>> Again I tried simply selecting the highest HP Deskjet model listed in
>> the
>> new Cups Gutenprint list of drivers and that seems to work well?
>
> Have you tried PostScript Level 2?
>
I haven't seen that option, where would I look for it, CUPS, GIMP ?
BobG
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