Digital BW, The Print

Hi Roger,

At 09:40 AM 10/12/2003, you wrote:

>I don't know of anyone that has been able to print from gimp in Linux. The
>problem seems to be in gimp-print. The QTR2 ppds just won't show up when you
>define a printer. My work around is to define the printer using webmin then
>to print using qtcups.


I've been able to print from Gimp, and the QTR2 printer is indeed showing 
up for me.  I had to configure the printer using lpadmin, however -- the 
GUI printconf tool (a.k.a. gnome-printer, a.k.a redhat-config-printer) 
indeed fails to show any of the QTR2 PPDs.  In fact, printconf also fails 
to show the QTR2 printer after I've set it up with lpadmin.  There's some 
sort of a compatibility issue with CUPs versus Foomatic versus gimp-print 
drivers.  I've seem posts that seem to be discussing this, but I haven't 
researched the issue enough to figure out exactly what is going on.

However, I see that qtcups gives me the QTR2-specific options for the 
printer, whereas I can't find a similar dialog in gimp-print.  All I get is 
a command-line for what gets sent to "lp" behind the scenes.

How are you printing with qtcups?  Are you saving an intermediate file, and 
then running "qtcups <filename>"?  How do you control sizing, layout, etc.?


My biggest problem right now is printing out inkpattern.psd in a "raw CMYK" 
manner, so I can calibrate for my Lyson inkset.  Apparently, re-rendering 
it in any way will spoil the document's ability to print 21-Steps for just 
one ink at a time.  Can you think of a way I can do this?  Roy has offered 
to send me a CMYK TIFF file.  Is there a way I could get this printed in 
qtcups?

Thanks in advance,

Allan