Re: [Gimp-print-devel] While we're on the subject of MacOS builds..

[Matt B. <wal...@ma...>]

> On Nov 30, 2020, at 10:45 AM, Solomon Peachy <pi...@sh...> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 10:24:50AM -0600, Matt Broughton wrote:
>> What does the user have to do to get the correct backend associated 
>> with the printer?
> 
> When using the CUPS UI, it's straightforward once they know what to look 
> for; they can visually confirm which backend is being used from the 
> connection URI.  Naturally, the CUPS UI is not enabled by default.
> 
> So I don't know if there is any way to make this determination from 
> within the native MacOS printer setup dialogs; from what I infer from 
> the support requests that come in, if both backends claim to support the 
> printer, MacOS just picks [the wrong] one for the user and carries on.
> 
> - Solomon

Solomon,
Let's try this.  Use the native macos printer set up dialog in System Preferences.  When they add the printer, they should see the printer in the sheet "Add" as it is detected by the system.  Hopefully there will be the gutenprint53+usb in addition to the USB.  Just choose the one that shows the backend you want and you are good to go.  I am attaching a screen shot if the mailing list allows.  Else I can send it off list.  Get someone on the Mac platform to take a look.

A long time ago, we had a  third party backend 'usbtb' that dealt better with the parallel to USB converters.  Both USB and USBTB showed up.  All we had to do is to select the backend we wanted.
Matt