Printing from Gimp -

Erik P. Olsen erik at epo.dk
Mon Aug 28 10:40:05 UTC 2006


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?

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