Epson Stylus D88

I found that Epson Stylus D88 was supported on www.linuxprinting.org and I
hoped it to be in the list of printers in SuSE 10.1. But no. Suse still use
the old gimp-print and I can't find any rpm's for gutenprint (which is the
newest version of gimp-print). I can download a driver from epsons web-site
and it works perfect within KDE and it showed up in the printlist in Yast.
I opened Gimp and I couldn't find it in the printlist. Why is the printlist
in Yast different from the one in gimp? Maybe gimp get its list from
gimp-print? So I tried the only other option I found, to pick the
Postscript level 1 or 2 and pick the ppd-file. Under command I tried the
suggested one (for the normal writer:lp -s -dnormal -oraw) and I also tried
to remove -oraw etc. When I did this nothing happened when I tried to
print. I found out that I could pick Espon styluc C82 or C84, but the
margins would be a little wrong.
I found by googling on gutenprint one from SuSE saying that they wouldn't
support beta-programs like gutenprint. Well, what will happen then to all
of us is that our new printers will not be supported in one of the
important programs in Linux, which will not be a good advertisement for
Linux. At least should it be optional to install gutenprint instead of
gimp-print, like we get the option to install the development branch of
gimp!
So why don't I compile gutenprint. I tried but it gave me a conflict with
the gimp-package. So I guess I also have to remove gimp and then compile it
afterwards?
Is there something I have ourlooked? There should be an easy way to get
printers recommended by www.linuxprinting.org to work in SuSE and gimp if
we really want Linux to get a bigger share of the Desktop market!

Svein

Svein Hamnes Aaberge wrote:
.....
> Is there something I have ourlooked? There should be an easy way to get
> printers recommended by www.linuxprinting.org to work in SuSE and gimp if
> we really want Linux to get a bigger share of the Desktop market!

What version of gutenprint are you running? Oops..you're out of
date already... and apparently a desktop heathen devil child of
sorts...

Seriously, there's no good way of staying up to date with the latest
alpha/beta/whatever ware and providing good support... it's just
not possible. I suppose we could all run custom one-off versions
of Linux... but support... well.. you're all on your own at
that point.

I feel your pain though. I bought a bleeding edge Epson at one
time... while it's well supported now, at the time I was running
SUSE 8 or an early 9... (might have been SUSE 8.1) and in that
version, SUSE had put a CVS pull of gimp-print (which was known
to be broken with regards to much needed patches from the main
trunk).

I think removing the existing gimp-print and trying to
install your own is the best way in trying to handle this.
But don't use YaST... I'd go straight to the CUPS administration
stuff via it's browser i/f.

Hope it works for you.

Chris Cox wrote:

> I think removing the existing gimp-print and trying to
> install your own is the best way in trying to handle this.
> But don't use YaST... I'd go straight to the CUPS administration
> stuff via it's browser i/f.
>
> Hope it works for you.

I found a better way: When I left the reference to the PPD-file empty in the
print dialog in Gimp it worked!
I used Postscript level 2 and under command I used "lp -s -dnormal" (for the
normal writer).
Thank you anyway.
Svein

Svein Hamnes Aaberge wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>
>>I think removing the existing gimp-print and trying to
>>install your own is the best way in trying to handle this.
>>But don't use YaST... I'd go straight to the CUPS administration
>>stuff via it's browser i/f.
>>
>>Hope it works for you.
>
> I found a better way: When I left the reference to the PPD-file empty in the
> print dialog in Gimp it worked!
> I used Postscript level 2 and under command I used "lp -s -dnormal" (for the
> normal writer).

Hmmm... interesting. Glad it worked!