Re: gs and stp

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

"Keith G. Murphy" wrote:
> 
> Joakim Svensson wrote:
> >
> > Hi Debian users,
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any ghostscript
> > GhostScript 5.50 or gs-aladdin 6.50 with
> > the gimp print stp driver compiled in as a
> > dep packet ?
> 
> I had one built once upon a time for a version of gs-aladdin, but seem
> to have lost it.  Since then, the one I had installed got "upgraded", so
> I'm in the position of trying to build one anew.
> 
> But look what I found on SourceForge a few days ago:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537&release_id=19032
> 
> There's a deb in there (gs 5.10)!  I've upgraded to that; however I
> haven't tried it yet because:
> 
> (1) It requires a lot of really recent (unstable) libraries, like
> libc6.  I even had to upgrade xfree, and I haven't got that working
> again yet.  First things first.
> 
> (2) I'll have to create the proper magicfilter for it, which I'll try to
> do this time using the resources (foomatic) at www.linuxprinting.org.
> Or I may go with CUPS this time.
> 
OK, finally got everything working.

I went with CUPS (because folks seem enthusiastic about it, and I
thought it would be fun to try).  I installed that gs w/stp deb from
SourceForge, the cupsomatic filter from www.linuxprinting.org, and the
Epson 740 ppd file from the same place.  It all works quite nicely.

At this point, I am adjusting the different parameters to get the
printer to more accurately reproduce images, in terms of colors,
brightness, etc., matching what I see on the screen.  (Not that it's bad
right now).

To do this, I needed to install xpp, since the CUPS web-based
configuration cannot handle numeric configuration values.  There is a
fix to xpp needed; a logical link was not made.  Renzo Bagnati posted
this fix a few days ago:

ln -s /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 /usr/lib/libcups.so