[plug] Printing from the Gimp

[Craig Foster]

I think most people have stories of weird Minolta printers.
Aren't Minolta laser printers notoriously GDI engined postscript, which is
why the postscript came through?
Urgh!

CraigF.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Cameron Patrick
> Sent: Friday, 31 December 2004 3:40 PM
> To: PLUG List
> Subject: [plug] Printing from the Gimp
> 
> In case anyone else has problems with printing from the Gimp 
> to a CUPS printer where all they get is pages of raw 
> postscript, the trick is to go into "Setup Printer" and edit 
> the print command, so that instead of saying something like:
> 
>     lp -s -dminolta -oraw
> 
> it says something like:
> 
>     lp -s -dminolta
> 
> i.e. without the -oraw bit.  Despite the little thingy it 
> pops up with saying "please don't remove the -oraw or 
> printing will fail", it made it work for me. (Gimp 2.2, CUPS, 
> colour laser printer, Debian sid.)
> 
> Cameron.