[Gimp-print-devel] Printing

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

I noticed in your Slashdot interview that you said that one of GNOME's
greatest needs is for more printer drivers for gnome-print.  Well, in
the gimp-print project (the Gimp Print plugin, which a group of us
have split off as its own separate project from the Gimp) we have a
fair number of print drivers, mostly for Epson but also some HP and
Canon printers.  We also have a dithering engine that works fairly
well that supports all this stuff.

Personally, I think that having a heavyweight standalone print plugin
for the Gimp is exactly the wrong direction to go, and indeed one of
our goals is to eventually get rid of the plugin except as a thin glue
layer.

One area that we really want to look at is how to specify
printer-specific options.  There are a lot of these (e. g. different
ways of producing output, different paper types, etc.) and we need a
framework for all of this to fit into.

If you'd like to check out what we have on gimp-print.sourceforge.net,
please feel free to do so.  It's all (of course :-) ) GPL'ed.

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