On Tuesday 11 March 2003 16:52, Donald Spoon wrote: > Dave Selby wrote: > > I have installed gimp print & CUPS to use my epson stylus C60 printer. > > They work fine and I can print at different resolutions & colours. > > > > I have now started using gimp quite heavily. When I print from gimp my > > epson is not on the list of supported printers. I have to select > > postscript level 2, and modify the command executed to > > Hrmmm.... it appears something is wrong with your setup (maybe). I am > not an expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I am running CUPS + > CUPSYS-DRIVER-GIMPPRINT from "testing" here sucessfully and GIMP seems > to work OK. BTW, I am using another printer (a HP 960C), so I cannot > help you with things specific to your printer....just "general" info. > > Your Epson C60 is listed on my list of "supported" printers under both > CUPS and GIMP here. Was it listed when you setup CUPS? > > You might try re-installing the cupsys-driver-gimpprint package and > re-configuring your CUPS setup, if you haven't done this already. I use > the "Printing Manager" wizard under KDE for all my CUPS config work > rather than the web-browser interface, but that shouldn't matter. > > > lpr -PepsonC60_photo > > > > to make it print, having setup epsonC60_photo via cups as a photoquality > > mode. > > > > However to change resolution or media type I have to keep going into CUPS > > and modifying the printed setup for epsonC60_photo. > > One method I use here to keep from going into CUPS to re-configure for > various printing modes is to "pre-define" the various modes I want to > use in CUPS. Although you have only one printer, you CAN define it in > various ways under CUPS. For example, I want a general-purpose printer > for text printing, I config "LP-Text" for black & white only. I then > define a second printer under CUPS for low-res color work as "LP-Color", > and a third as "LP-Photo" for photo-quality work. You can extend this > as far as you want/need. Some apps will automatically select the mode > they want...GIMP appears to do this for me. > > On most apps, I then have 3 "printers" to choose to use..."LP-Text", > "LP-Color", and "LP-Photo". I select one of these as the system > "default" for the most common printing tasks. > > > I have dpkg-reconfigure gimp1.2 in the hope it will pick up the later > > added gimp print but to no avail. > > > > Has this gotsomething to do with a "PPD" file, is this a printer driver > > file ? Failing this is there some other way to get gimp to see what is > > avalible via CUPS ? > > One final thought... do you have BOTH the "gimp 1.2" and the "gimp > 1.2-print" packages installed?? I have both here in addition to the > "cupsys-driver-gimpprint" package. > > If you want to compare setups (packages) and procedures further, just > holler. That is about the only other thing I can think about doing. > > Cheers, > -Don Spoon-
AAAHHHHH Sweet Sweet success !! Thank you so much ... I had gimp 1.2 but not gimp1.2-print, this is what I needed I can now access all my dpi, media size etc from gimp I owe you one Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
