Everyone, please test this release thoroughly. The Epson driver has undergone significant changes from the current 4.2 branch, and I'd like to merge this code back into 4.2, as it's going to be needed to support the UltraChrome inkset in the newest printers. I'd like this to undergo some testing prior to a 4.2 prerelease. Gimp-Print 4.3.3, released July 14, 2002, is a development release of this package. This software includes the Print plug-in for the Gimp, and GhostScript and CUPS drivers, including Foomatic data. The Gimp Print plugin requires the Gimp 1.2. The CUPS driver requires CUPS 1.1.9 or higher. 1.1.14 or above is highly recommended, as certain translation-related bugs are fixed and it is possible to print true CMYK. The Ghostscript driver requires Ghostscript 5.50, 6.51, or any later GNU Ghostscript release based on 6.51 (e. g. 6.52). The IJS GhostScript plugin driver requires GNU Ghostscript 6.53 or later or APFL GhostScript 7.04 or later. Please read the README file for full instructions on building and installing this package. Gimp-Print 4.3.3 contains the following major changes over Gimp-Print 4.3.2: 1) Printing at very low vertical resolution (typically less than 360 DPI; 360 DPI itself is fine) in black and white mode on some Epson printers either failed or produced incorrect results. This bug has been present for a while. 2) Quad tone grayscale inks, such as the Piezography (TM) inks, are now supported for most Epson Stylus printers. This is not tuned for a particular inkset at this time, so the results will not be of top quality yet. 3) The Gimp Print plugin will now compile properly on commercial UNIX systems that do not have the asprintf function (which is libc-specific). 4) Various improvements to EvenTone dithering. 5) The Epson Stylus Photo 2100 and 2200, and 7600 and 9600, should now print correctly in seven color mode (for UltraChrome inks). -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
