Gutenprint, formerly known as gimp-print, is a project to provide high
quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark and PCL printers.
This package contains the driver libraries which are the basis of the
gutenprint project, and which can be used by other printing programs. It
may be used with most common UNIX print spooling systems, including
CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or others.
There are 3 subpackages:
* foomatic-db-gutenprint -> Foomatic data for gutenprint drivers
* gutenprint-cups -> gutenprint CUPS driver
* gutenprint-gimp -> Gimp print plug-in
Note: the direct CUPS drivers won't work as they need pstoraster which
will be included with the next ghostscript update; you will still be
able to print with CUPS using foomatic (which most of the time is the
recommended way anyway).
Hopefully, more people will test this now that it's in.
based on a port by jakemsr@
ok jakemsr@
foo2zjs is an open source printer driver for printers that use the
Zenographics ZjStream wire protocol for their print data, such as the
Minolta/QMS magicolor 2300 DL or Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 DL.
These printers are often erroneously referred to as winprinters or GDI
printers.
However, Microsoft GDI only mandates the API between an application and
the printer driver, not the protocol on the wire between the printer
driver and the printer.
In fact, ZjStream printers are raster printers which happen to use a
very efficient wire protocol which was developed by Zenographics and
licensed by most major printer manufacturers for at least some of their
product lines.
from Giovanni Bechis <g.bechis at snb dot it> (MAINTAINER) with some
tweaks by me
testing and ok merdely@
Foomatic's database engine generates PPD files from the data in
Foomatic's XML database. It also contains scripts to directly generate
print queues and handle jobs.
work by and ok jakemsr@, ok kili@
The collected knowledge about printers, drivers, and driver options in
XML files, used by foomatic-db-engine to generate PPD files.
work by and ok jakemsr@ (very minor tweaks from me), ok kili@
Filter scripts used by the printer spoolers to convert the incoming
PostScript data into the printer's native format using a printer/driver
specific, but spooler-independent PPD file.
work by and ok jakemsr@, ok kili@
IJS is, first and foremost, a protocol for transmission of raster page
images. This snapshot provides a reference implementation of the
protocol, the design of which is still in flux. When the protocol
specification is published, it will be authoritative. Applications
should feel free to link against the library provided in this package,
adapt that code for their own needs, or roll a completely new
implementation.
first step at importing Jacob Meuser (jakemsr@)'s work on printing
from an ok jakemsr@ (with some small tweaks by me)
Adriaan <misc.adriaan@gmail.com>. Help from espie@ (disable it in
the Makefile instead of patching configure).
While here, strip quotes from COMMENT, add HOMEPAGE and fix MASTER_SITES.
ok espie@
