Gimp-Print 4.3.9, released February 15, 2003, is a development release of this package.

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 print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2 (later versions of the Gimp are not supported).

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 IJS-based 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.

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

Gimp-Print 4.3.9 is considered to be an unstable release, as more significant changes have been introduced with relatively limited testing.

The overall focus of this release is a greatly enhanced Print plugin for the GIMP. This now offers experimental features for color control, such as separate balance (density) and gamma controls for each channel, the opportunity to edit curves for each channel independently, and so forth. This offers opportunities for people to experiment with the color controls to improve color matching accuracy.

Gimp-Print 4.3.9 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.8:

1) The Print plugin now offers a variety of additional controls in the Print Color Adjust window. We suggest that you experiment with these controls; we'd like to know what results you get and any suggestions you may have.

2) The exact controls that are available change dynamically depending upon selected options; for example, when you select grayscale output, the color controls go away. Some controls are optional; you must click a checkbox next to the control in order to enable it.

3) There are new controls adjacent to the color swatch in the Print Color Adjust window that enable you to view the channels individually.

4) The Print plugin windows can be usefully resized.

5) The Print plugin has a new printrc file format. This format is not back compatible with older versions of the plugin; the current plugin can read old printrc files, but the saved format will not be understood by older versions of the plugin.

6) The maximum density setting has been increased to 8.0 from 2.0. The density range of 0.1-2.0 did not allow use of sufficient ink for some combinations of paper, ink, and resolution.

7) The Epson driver will automatically attempt to use a larger ink drop size if the density is set high enough such that it is not possible to deposit enough ink with the current setting.

This replaces 4.3.9, which was determined to suffer from serious (although fairly subtle in effect) bugs that were not detected until after its release.

Gimp-Print 4.3.10, released February 15, 2003, is a development release of this package.

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 print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2 (later versions of the Gimp are not supported).

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 IJS-based 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.

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

Gimp-Print 4.3.10 is considered to be an unstable release, as more significant changes have been introduced with relatively limited testing.

The overall focus of this release is a greatly enhanced Print plugin for the GIMP. This now offers experimental features for color control, such as separate balance (density) and gamma controls for each channel, the opportunity to edit curves for each channel independently, and so forth. This offers opportunities for people to experiment with the color controls to improve color matching accuracy.

Gimp-Print 4.3.10 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.8:

1) The Print plugin now offers a variety of additional controls in the Print Color Adjust window. We suggest that you experiment with these controls; we'd like to know what results you get and any suggestions you may have.

2) The exact controls that are available change dynamically depending upon selected options; for example, when you select grayscale output, the color controls go away. Some controls are optional; you must click a checkbox next to the control in order to enable it.

3) There are new controls adjacent to the color swatch in the Print Color Adjust window that enable you to view the channels individually.

4) The Print plugin windows can be usefully resized.

5) The Print plugin has a new printrc file format. This format is not back compatible with older versions of the plugin; the current plugin can read old printrc files, but the saved format will not be understood by older versions of the plugin.

6) The maximum density setting has been increased to 8.0 from 2.0. The density range of 0.1-2.0 did not allow use of sufficient ink for some combinations of paper, ink, and resolution.

7) The Epson driver will automatically attempt to use a larger ink drop size if the density is set high enough such that it is not possible to deposit enough ink with the current setting.

Gimp-Print 4.3.11, released February 28, 2003, is a development release of this package.

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 print plugin for the Gimp requires the Gimp 1.2 (later versions of the Gimp are not supported).

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 IJS-based 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.

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

Gimp-Print 4.3.11 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.10:

1) A significant bug fix in the EvenTone dither algorithm significantly improves quality with this option.

2) Paper sizes with tearoff margins (such as Epson 4x6 photo paper) now use the correct margin. This corresponds to bug 409612.

3) The IJS driver can now (in principle) handle all options supported by Gimp-print, rather than a specific subset. This is not tested and not propagated to Foomatic at this time. The src/ghost/README file has not been updated at this time; finding all of the available options will require studying the source code.

4) The number of resolution/quality settings in the Epson driver has been reduced by means of adding a new option for unidirectional, bidirectional, or auto printing. This new option is not available in the CUPS driver; automatic choice of print head direction is always used at this time.

5) The number of paper size choices in the GIMP plugin has been greatly reduced; there is a new global option to show all available paper sizes or just the most common sizes.

6) The LaserJet IIP driver now supports TIFF compression for faster printing speed.