Re: [Gimp-print-devel] driver

[Gene I. <eb...@oz...>]

Answer:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/howtos/printing.html#gimp

Robert Krawitz wrote:
>    Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:08:58 +0000
>    From: Till Kamppeter <til...@gm...>
> 
>    Gene Imes wrote:
>    > Other than the obvious write it myself, is there a way to get a driver 
>    > done for a particular printer?
>    > 
>    > I have an HP Photosmart-C7180 which gutenprint doesn't seem to support.
> 
>    This printer is supported by its manufacturer, by HP's HPLIP which
>    comes with every distro or you get the newest version at
>    http://hplip.sf.net/.  On many distros you do not need to do more
>    then plugging in the printer and the queue gets created
>    automatically. Also most HP printers are compatible to their
>    predecessors. If you do not find a driver for exactly this model
>    you will most probably find another HP-supported model with which
>    make this printer working (nearly) perfectly.
> 
> If this model is supported by HPLIP, there's no really good reason to
> put that support into Gutenprint, since HPLIP is also fully free
> software.
> 


-- 
Gene Imes