Gimp-Print 4.2.3-pre1, released October 1, 2002, is a prerelease in the Gimp-Print 4.2 series.

Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks.

This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data.

The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2.

The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK.

The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). It may also be used with GNU Ghostscript 7.05, or with ESP Ghostscript 7.05.

The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later.

Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use this package. We recommend that Macintosh OS X users download the precompiled installer package from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net rather than attempt to build this package from source, as using the installer is much simpler. We further recommend that Macintosh OS X users install ESP GhostScript, to permit printing from Carbon applications (such as most Adobe applications) that generate PostScript rather than PDF output. Directions for that are also available at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net.

Please read the README file for full instructions on installing this package.

Gimp-Print 4.2.3-pre1 contains the following changes and fixes over Gimp-Print 4.2.2:

1) The Epson stylus 600, 800, 850, 1520, and 3000 now print correctly at 1440x720 DPI.

2) The package will now compile correctly on Solaris and BSD-based systems (Regression in 4.2.2).

3) Support for the Epson Stylus Photo EX3 and Stylus Photo 825, in addition to support for the Japanese equivalents of all supported Epson printers.

4) The Epson Stylus 660 margins have been corrected.

5) The Epson Stylus C20/C40/C41/C42 and Stylus Color 480 and 580 now print correctly in grayscale and black and white (Regression in 4.2.2).

6) The Epson driver positions correctly at 360x240 DPI.

7) The Epson Stylus 7600 may now print correctly (although probably not optimally). This printer still requires further testing.

Bugs fixed in this release:

597964 Epson 660 wrong margins 604854 QUALITY-Epson 1520 and 3000 print too dark at 1440x720 DPI 611804 rastertoprinter.c fails to compile on Solaris 613384 Epson 7600 no printing
615561 Epson C40UX cannot print in B&W and Gray 615759 360x240 bad horizontal position

Gimp-Print 4.2.3-pre2, released October 12, 2002, is a prerelease in the Gimp-Print 4.2 series (it is not actually 4.2.3).

Gimp-Print is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others. These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2 and newer) and Linux systems in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor-supplied drivers, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing tasks.

This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data.

The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2.

The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK.

The Ghostscript driver requires GNU Ghostscript 5.10, 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). It may also be used with GNU Ghostscript 7.05, or with ESP Ghostscript 7.05.

The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later, ESP Ghostscript 7.05 or later, or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later.

Users of Macintosh OS X 10.2 and above can use this package, as the printing system is based on CUPS, which is supported by Gimp-print. Note that Macintosh OS X 10.0 and 10.1 (including 10.1.5) cannot use this package. We recommend that Macintosh OS X users download the precompiled installer package from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net rather than attempt to build this package from source, as using the installer is much simpler. We further recommend that Macintosh OS X users install ESP GhostScript, to permit printing from Carbon applications (such as most Adobe applications) that generate PostScript rather than PDF output. Directions for that are also available at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net.

Please read the README file for full instructions on installing this package.

Gimp-Print 4.2.3-pre2 contains the following changes and fixes over Gimp-Print 4.2.3-pre1:

1) A Japanese translation has been added.

2) Two bugs in the IJS driver have been fixed.

3) The change to the Epson Stylus 660 margins in 4.2.3-pre1 has been backed out; retesting demonstrated that the bug was in fact fixed in 4.2.2.

4) A reported problem with very large prints (A0 or B0 size) failing to print correctly on Stylus Pro printers is likely fixed.

Bugs fixed in this release:

597964 Epson 660 wrong margins 619992 IJS driver prints spurious first line 620016 IJS driver does not print properly in monochrome 621667 Very large prints on Epson 9500 fail