Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Can Stylus print closer than 23mm to top of page?

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 23:08:09 +0800
   From: Nick Urbanik <ni...@vt...>

   As you say, it's really slow, so I downloaded and compiled 3.1, excited by
   the prospect of support for our Epson 440, and by begin able to print an
   A4 photo in less than 2.5 hours!!!

   However, I've been singularly unsuccessful.
   System: Red Hat 6.1 with all updates, now gimp 1.0 removed, gimp 1.1.17
   working, PIII.

   When compiling it together with gimp 1.1.17, the make stopped at print.
   Note that print is a link to print-3.1.0 (is that okay?)

It's intended to build standalone.  You should simply unpack it, run
./configure, and make.

   I ran ./configure in print, then make, and it compiled.  I tried printing
   with 440 driver: no printer recognised, only File (the LPC_DEF and
   LPR_DEF names were undefined, as you see below)
   So I tried printing to file.  Never stopped.  Hmm, this has been such a
   long saga, I'm getting a bit misty on the order of my misfortune.  A more
   recent try resulted in feeding many pages through the printer, with one
   page getting a line or two of coloured text.  I was using the 440 printer
   with high quality setting.

   Next, I edited my makefile, added the stuff for the printer that was
   missing:

That's not the right place to fix this; we need to somehow fix it in
configure.in.

   It compiled.  I tried the 600 driver with 720 dpi highest quality.  The
   printer just fed many pages through with out any printing.

The 600 driver will not work.  You will need to use the 440 driver.

   I have 6000 photos of our lovely baby, and I'd love to be able to print
   them in less than 2.5 hours.  I've compiled 3.09, and am printing with the
   600 driver on 720 dpi Microweave.  It works, but vvvvvvveeeerrrrrrryyyyyy
   sssssssssllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

   Sorry to be stuck, but I'd really appreciate any pointers on how to get
   3.1 or stuff from CVS working, will try any suggestions.  I will feed back
   whatever works.

Try downloading the CVS stuff.  There's a little problem with most
Gimp installations, though.  You need to make sure that you have a
gimp.m4 in /usr/local/share/aclocal (or /usr/share/aclocal on some
systems); the Gimp doesn't always install it properly (it is in your
Gimp distribution).  You need to edit it according to the directions
in the README file.

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