On Tuesday 11 March 2003 17:17, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2003 05:44 am, 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
> >
> > 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.
>
> The Gimp print dialog box allows me to choose any of my printers that I
> have set up with Cups. I can choose media size & do some color adjustments
> etc. but it seems the resolution & media type are set by Cups for the
> printer.
>
> > 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 ?
> >
> > Any ideas
> > Dave
>
> I am just begining to work with Cups but so far I can see no way to change
> some printer driver settings outside of the Cups interface of Kprinter
> (KDE). The closesest I have come is to change them with Kprinter but this
> works only for apps that use Krinter for printing, afaik mostly the KDE
> apps.

gimp1.2-print solved all my problems !!, It may be of some help to you also ? 
ie I can now change resolution and media from gimp

Dave


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