[plug] Printing from the Gimp

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 15:39, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.)

In general, before doing this its best to look for a gimp-print driver
for your printer so that GIMP can generate the printer's required data
format directly.

That said, glad to hear it worked.

--
Craig Ringer