Gimp-Print 4.3.14, released May 11, 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 1.1.15 or higher.

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 4.3.14 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.13:

1) Problems with the Epson driver printing too much ink at high resolutions on all printers have been fixed, and a related crash on the Stylus Photo 950/960 and 2100/2200 has been fixed. This problem was introduced in 4.3.13.

2) Ink drop auto-resizing in the Epson driver has been fixed, and an option to turn it off has been added. Auto-resizing is a feature by which if the density is increased to the point where every dot position is filled, a larger dot size is chosen to allow more ink to be printed. This permits users to solve problems of not enough ink being printed.

3) A glitch in Even Tone dithering in certain very pale regions has been fixed. This problem was introduced in 4.3.12.

4) Significant improvements in the quality of Adaptive Hybrid, Ordered, and Fast dithering.

5) The PCL, Canon, and Lexmark drivers now print correctly in three-color mode.

6) The Postscript driver in the GIMP plug-in now works correctly in non-US locales.

7) A Czech translation has been added.

8) The tests have been improved in coverage and capability.

9) Engineering C paper size has been added.

10) Additional printers have been added to the compatibility list.

11) "Set defaults" in the output adjustment window now sets default values of all options (boolean and choice in addition to floating point).

12) A problem with ordered and adaptive hybrid dithering at low densities has been fixed. The typical symptom is sharp transitions at high resolutions.

13) 1440x1440 Highest Quality has been removed from the resolution choice for Epson printers capable of printing at 2880x1440.

14) The Epson family driver has been significantly restructured.

15) Additional "const" corrections have been made in the code. Additional (probably too many) warnings have been enabled in maintainer mode.

16) The printdef program, which has long been obsolete, has been removed. This has caused some spurious build problems.