Thanks Adrian.
On 17 Jan 2005, at 12:20, Adrian Simmons wrote:
(a) how to find which version is installedOpen Apple's Printer Setup Utility
Click on your printer
Click Show info and choose Printer Model in the pop-up menu
It should then show you the driver that is being used, which in my case has the gimp-print version number included.
It appears in the Printer Model as you say but it was not mentioned under the Driver. It is 4.2.5 which is not as out of date as I had thought.
(b) how to find out if installing a later version overwrites the old one but does not destroy the "printer"As far as I can remember it works fine if you just upgrade, yes it will overwrite the old version, but I think the printer stays set up.
OK fingers crossed.
Also, if anyone has a work round (which works) for setting the printer up as an AppleTalk printer via Ethernet and 100BaseT card I would be delighted to hear about it.As far as I know OSX printing has never been able to use Appletalk.
Yes there is support in OSX for Apple Talk and Gimp have published a work round. It just does not work. In atlookup I get the following:
Stylus_Pro_7500-B7660E:EPSONLQ2 EPB7660EENSN:EPSONNICENPC EPB7660EENSN:SNMP Agent
So I am not sure I am looking at the card here. The printer is the top one of course.
Using IP is far slower and much more complicated and flaky.Well, it works fine for me. I think perhaps the difference is the driver. Old fashioned Appletalk drivers typically were made by the printer manufacturer and talked directly to the printer in it's own language.
gimp-print simply provides the bridge between the CUPS ghostscript and your printer. ghostscript is a software postscript RIP. Basically you are printing postscript, having a software postscript RIP render it and then the gimp-print drivers translate that into a language your printer can understand. It's a lot more heavy duty processing and tends to be slower, particularly because it renders the whole printed document before sending anything to the printer.
The printer is not a postscript printer and there is no RIP being used. I appreciate that if there were things would take longer. The web page says that for OS10.3 you don't need GhostScript, though I have installed Ghostscrippt in the past. I have a GhostScript uninstaller but I am not sure if I have still got GS installed. No am I sure why 10.3 does not require it to be installed. Is it because the OS installs it anyway or because it is not needed. If the former then running the uninstaller will presumably mess things up royally :0|
the card and I wonder if I should be setting the printer up using the card info and not the printer info but that seems daft. I have tried it many times and got nowhere.It's an ethernet enabled printer? Does that mean it effectively has a print server? Yes I think you should be setting the printer up based on that card.
Yup it has a USB plug socket and a card slot where the Ethernet card / server goes and which is the means by which it is connected, via a switch. I have a LaserJet with external ethernet server also attached to the switch.
Thanks.
Drew
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