[plug] Printing from the Gimp

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Dec 31 17:24:01 WST 2004


Craig Foster wrote:

> 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?

It's a networked colour laser that doesn't speak postscript natively,
it takes an odd compressed bitmap format instead.  The CUPS drivers
know what to do with it (call up ghostscript and stuff to translate),
but if the GIMP insists on sending raw postscript to the printer, it
disnae work.

Cameron.




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