On 9/6/05, Alex Feldman wrote:

I am running Fedora core 3, with Gimp 2.2.6

I would like to print to my Epson Stylus Photo R1800 from the Gimp. I installed Gutenprint 5.0.0.rc1 and it seemed to go in OK. The printer

Does gutenprint 5.0.0.rc1 even work with GIMP 2.2.6? Are you sure you don't need a built-from-source development version? I mean it *is* a recent Release Candidate of the printer driver...

Try upgrading to 2.2.8. If you can, try compiling 2.3.3 (development version) if 2.2.8 doesn't work. Otherwise, I have no clue.

Alex Feldman wrote:

I am running Fedora core 3, with Gimp 2.2.6

I would like to print to my Epson Stylus Photo R1800 from the Gimp. I installed Gutenprint 5.0.0.rc1 and it seemed to go in OK. The printer

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Does anyone out there have it working?

Yes. GIMP 2.2.4, SuSE 9.3. Gutenprint worked straight out of the box (--with-gimp2 --with-cups), so can't really help you.

Regards,

On 9/7/05, Alex Feldman wrote:

M> Can you print with anything else? E.g. a test page from your print M> setup (e.g. CUPS) or another app?

I did get a test page. I haven't really tried much else (what I did try failed, but that was early in the process), since all I really want from this printer is to print photos, and there are a lot of reasons why I

If you can't print anything else, it doesn't help, although it *is* a photo printer, I suppose.

would like to do that with Gimp. I have tried the avasys driver for the R800, and that didn't work.

I did get a reply that it works with SuSE. No one has said it works with FC3.

To be honest, I have a HP Deskjet 722C. I use GIMP 2.2.8, and Debian, but I haven't even touched Gutenprint -- yet.

As for the printer not working...

Then again, does this help?

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_Photo_R1800 [Printer does not support PJL.]

Umm... someone tell us, does Gutenprint or GIMP even touch PJL? If not, well... I have no clue. If it does... *shrugs* You're pretty much on your own.

That said, if you have a version of Windows, the Windows build of GIMP will usually print on Windows' print system... but *shrugs*

Now that I think about it, I think... is it even POSSIBLE to build a GIMP plugin without GIMP and GTK development libraries? Someone tell me the answer... ^^

Maybe try building GTK+, GIMP, and then Gutenprint from source, in that order. Use the latest versions stable version if you can (or feel free to try fiddling with a devel release, if you dare). Build dependencies or get the libxyz-dev(el) packages/rpms as necessary. Good luck.

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~Mike
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On 9/7/05, Alex Feldman wrote:

I've built all the development libraries - it warns you about that in the README. The problem is that Gutenberg isn't putting its plugin in the Gimp directory, and appears not to be doing that because there is something wrong with the plugin - I say that because when I try to install it manually, I can't print anything.

Ordinarily I think it is a problem with me, but I really now believe there is something fishy about Gutenprint and FC3. Back to bugzilla.

Please don't hate my bias, but FC3 is just a funky (as in fishy as in weird and not really perfect) system. It /could/ be that using GCC 4 will fail on Gutenprint -- in that case, try migrating to Debian Stable/Sarge (which still uses 3.3/3.4). Or even just FC3 not likeing Gutenprint. Unfortunately, AFAIK, Gimp 2.2.8 is only in sid and newer, but those rely on GCC 4.0 (as does the latest Debian build of GNOME and various other things).

Does the README say anything about GCC 4?