Re: [Gimp-print-devel] The future of Gutenprint (warning: long and opinionated)

[Roy H. <ro...@ha...>]

Hi Michael

As the author of QuadToneRIP I'm in much the same boat.  Since I use MacOS
as my main computer
I've been more committed to maintaining a Mac version.  So far so good, but
it seems the writing
is on the wall regarding regular old-style print drivers.
I've spent some time looking at IPP and PAPPL code but frankly I'm not
familiar enough to just jump right in.

What seems like a good feature would be a relatively simple way to just
open a printer-name and have
a simple connection to send a byte stream to the printer. Basically like
the old " | lpr -o raw -P printer"
Seems like this is the print application idea but without needing all the
IPP knowledge and code.
Is there an IPP equivalent? Would it be possible to easily do this?

Thanks
Roy Harrington


On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM Michael Sweet via Gimp-print-devel <
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> Believe me, I understand your feelings entirely! :)
>
> WRT the separate printer applications, I'm available as a resource whether
> you just have questions about PAPPL or need changes made to it.  I might
> even have some time to contribute some code...
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