The Gimp-Print package contains high quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark and PCL printers for use with ESP Ghostscript-8.15.2, CUPS-1.2.7, Foomatic, LPRng-3.8.28, lpr and the GIMP-1.2. See a list of supported printers at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-print/gimp-print-4.2.7.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 766be49f44a6a682d857e5aefec414d4
Download size: 5.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB
Estimated build time: 0.32 SBU (additional 4.37 SBUs to run the test suite)
CUPS-1.2.7, Foomatic, IJS, teTeX-3.0, DocBook-utils-0.6.14 and ESP Ghostscript-8.15.2 or AFPL Ghostscript-8.53
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gimp-print
Install Gimp-Print by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-testpattern --enable-test && make
To test the results, issue make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--with-testpattern: This parameter causes the test pattern generator program to be built.
--enable-test: This parameter causes the programs required by the test suite to be built.
--with-translated-ppds=no: When this switch is given, only US English PPD files for CUPS will be built. Useful if the PPD files are not yet translated into your native language and you want to save some space by not installing unneeded translations.
--enable-cups-level3-ps: This option causes the build process to generate PostScript level 3 PPD files instead of level 2 ones.
For CUPS to see newly installed PPD files, it has to be restarted (as the root user):
/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
This command may take a very long time (up to 10 minutes) to complete. Don't panic while CUPS is rescanning the list of PPD files. The long delay will happen only once.
Then point your web browser to http://localhost:631/ to add a new printer to CUPS.
Last updated on 2007-01-15 17:25:53 -0600