On Thursday 29 January 2004 10:05, Thomas Spuhler wrote: >Thanks. See me post form yesterday. >Of course I am using cups as print spooler. >Sven's suggestion of adding kprinter with one single command > (kprinter) in the command line solves this problem. > >Gene, how are you going to change paper size to tabloid or legal if > you do it your way. How would you tell to print 5 copies, or to use > the manual tray instead of the lower tray to print transparencies, > etc.? You just need "kprinter". > >Tom
All that is available in the requester that comes up if I choose print from the gimp menu. It has submenu's that will allow the printer to be configured, either one-time for this page, or permanently if you wish. This includes shrink and placement so I can do 4 or so pics per page by refeeding the page(s) for each print if I want more than 1 copy. I can also do duplex from there using the 2 pass method. And currently, I've ripped foomatic out, all of it - "rm -fR the dirs", as the gimp-print drivers for epson are fully capable to doing things for my fairly color critical eyes to my satisfaction, a bit better on a C-82, than on a 6 color 820. The plus is that the inks for the C-82 are archival, where as the photo 820 uses some sort of water soluables that will fade with time. As time goes by I find myself using the 820 less and less. The downside is that epson has jacked up the ink prices about 4x since I bought the first 820, and about 2x since I bought the C-82. A full set of tanks for the C-82 is around $70 US now, 2/3rds of what I paid for the C-82. That hurts, but they sure do nice work. >On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 19:39, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:59, Thomas Spuhler wrote: >> >I have been a Gimp user on Mandrake (currently 9.2) for quite >> > some time. I am currently using Gimp2-pre2. One of the features >> > that I find annoying is the printing. It is difficult to use >> > other printers than the standard, at least I don't know a direct >> > and easy way. >> >Using Gimp's normal printing feature is nice and OK for home >> > usage or if always printing to the very same printer. >> >Using kprinter is a really nice way to print in a corporate >> > environment. I can choose the printer I like or need on the >> > corporate network. >> > >> >Would there be a possiblity to make just one small change and do >> > it like Adobe Acrobat Reader: You just type in krinter into the >> > printer field in the printing dialog? >> >> If you were using gimp-print and cups, it would be pretty easy I >> think. I have 2 printers, both epson ink squirters, and 4 actual >> definitions setup, 2 for each printer in cups. 1 low res for text >> type outputs, and one hi-res for text+photo, both in color, for >> each printer. >> >> To the Gimp, they are simply lp0, lp1, lp2, and lp3, and the >> gimp-print dialog allows you to change which printer you are >> using. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
