On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 11:27:25PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Chris Green chris@areti.co.uk wrote:
[...] My printers seem to be set up right for everything else on my Linux box, why did the Gimp not get that right?
I think the Gimp does its own thing with printers, usually managing to give better printing of colour artwork than most of the usual drivers (although there is slow convergence of gimp-print, ghostscript and CUPS, I think). It does mean that you have to set the options at the top right of the print dialogue on the first time and then tell it to save the settings.
But what should I set to what?
I have my printer drivers installed in CUPS and everything else uses those by selecting printer Oj for the Officejet and Lj for the Laserjet. Gimp seems to send postscript to the printer even though I selected one of my CUPS printers, that's a bit brain dead. The Gimp doesn't seem to have drivers for my (pretty standard) HP printers.