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-