Gutenprint 5.0.0 review

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Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 0K
Developer: Sourceforge.net
Price: $0.00
Updated: 01 Aug 2006
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Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.

These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX (including Macintosh OS X 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4) and Linux systems that in many cases equal or exceed proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in quality and functionality, and can be used for demanding printing tasks requiring flexibility and high quality. This software package includes the Print plug-in for the GIMP and Ghostscript and CUPS drivers, as well as Foomatic data.

Gutenprint provides a very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS.
To install the drivers please read the “Setting up printers” PDF which is included with the download.

What's New:
A serious problem with margins when printing from CUPS in some  cases was introduced in Gutenprint 5.0.0-rc3. The symptoms are  that when printing certain kinds of material on certain printers,  the print is positioned incorrectly on the page (too far to the  right and too far down the page). This problem has been fixed.   
The Ghostscript driver used with Foomatic now prints all pages of  a document correctly. Previously it did not print any page  except the first page of a document, or printed all other pages  with possibly incorrect settings (bug 1501816).   
A new user's manual has been added in  doc/gutenprint-users-manual.odt (ODF format) and  doc/gutenprint-users-manual.pdf, replacing the old manual that  was based on Gimp-Print 4.2 (bug 1260142).   
The Postscript driver now handles PPD files with non-integer  imageable areas correctly in all locales (the PPD files certain  HP inkjet printers using the HPIJS driver have non-integer  imageable areas for some paper sizes). In 5.0.0-rc3, this was  handled incorrectly in locales that do not use the decimal point  (".") for separating fractions from integers.   
The PPD file parameter is now always accessible when using the  Postscript driver in third party Gutenprint-enabled applications.  This was not an issue with the enhanced Print plugin for the  GIMP.   
The Epson driver now chooses unidirectional vs. bidirectional  mode more intelligently on new printers that are capable of  producing excellent quality in bidirectional mode at high  resolutions. This improves printing speed with the default  settings in certain cases and in some cases improves print  quality.   
The Epson driver offers the same quality choices as 5.0.0-rc2 for  certain new printers such as the R800, R1800, and R2400. Certain  quality choices (in particular Super Photo and Ultra Photo) were  not available in 5.0.0-rc3.   
Various minor problems in the PPD files have been fixed. The  most notable change is that the names of the option groups have  been shortened so that they are shorter than 40 characters in all  cases except for one case in French.   
The French, Danish, Hungarian, and Swedish translations have been  updated.   
In the GIMP 2.4 and above (forthcoming as of Gutenprint 5.0  release), the enhanced Print plugin will be named "Print with  Gutenprint" so as not to collide with the GtkPrint-based plugin  bundled with that version of the GIMP. The Print plugin bundled  with GIMP 2.0 and 2.2 is based on Gimp-Print 4.2; the Print  plugin in this package simply replaces the Print plugin in those  versions of the GIMP (related to bug 1444700).   
Crashes in the Ghostscript and IJS drivers on certain non-Linux  platforms have been fixed (bug 1518126).   
A problem with margins with A4 paper on Kyocera printers has  been fixed (bug 1518131).   
A problem with the preview in the GIMP 1.2 plugin (which also  affects Cinepaint) not being updated properly if orientation  changes has been fixed.   
A problem with Foomatic data generation in certain locales has  been fixed (bug 1033007).   
The Epson Stylus Photo R800 and R1800 now print closer to the  bottom edge of the page.

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