[Gimp-print-devel] Re: Printing

[Miguel de I. <mi...@he...>]

> We already have one driver (for all the Epson printers that we
> otherwise support) that can be built as a Ghostscript driver.  There's
> no particular reason the others couldn't be, it's just that nobody's
> done them yet.  The basic driver model is such that it should be
> fairly easy to plug into most any kind of raster image source.
> Currently we support RGB/A, K/A, and a few indexed options; adding
> others (such as 12 or 16 bit RGB, for example) is just a matter of
> writing the appropriate lookup functions.

Can you point me to the tarball I could download?  I would love to
integrate your backends into the gnome-print rasterizer.

Now, that being said, we are going to make a few changes to
Gnome-Print to enable people to use the non-bitmap-priting features of
their printers (for common, simple cases like reports that do not need
a lot of printing power and definetly not a huge bitmap :-).

Miguel.