Bob McGowan

Hi Solomon, My question was from my mistaken understanding that there was an experimental driver for my printer. This is not the case as I can see now. Thanks for the information, though, I am looking at the HPLIP tools now. Bob

In the processs of setting up access to testing/unstable repositories to see if a new version of gimp or gutenptint were available, I did an update/upgrade and the loading problem with the 5.3.4 gutenprint went away. There were 89 packages upgraded so I don't know which may have been at fault. However I still do not see the B8550 printer and, on re-examining the list of supported printers I do not see it in the list either. My apologies for the noise about that. And how would I go about getting/helping...

Hello, I have an HP Photosmart B8550 printer, which has experimental support in the latest versions of gutenprint. I am running Debian 12.7 with GIMP 2.10.34. The repository version of gutenprint does not have support for my printer, so I've uninstalled it and downloaded/configured/compiled/installed gutenprint-5.3.4. However, it is not seen by gimp on startup. I just tried starting gimp from the command line and it spit out this error: /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gutenprint: error while loading shared...

Hello, I too am having installation problems, with version 5.3.4. I am working on a Debian 12.7 system, with GIMP 2.10.34. I had installed the repository version of gutenprint but it does not support my printer. I found on the gutenprint project page that there is experimental support for my printer so I downloaded, confiugred, compiled and installed gutenprint 5.3.4, after first uninstalling (purged) the repository version. The gutenprint plugin does get installed in /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins,...