Re: GIMP/Epson
Re: GIMP/Epson
- Subject: Re: GIMP/Epson
- From: Robert L Krawitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:33:45 -0500
From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:40:22 -0700
On Mar 27, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> I'd really like to understand what this is all about. Gimp-Print
> shouldn't be overwriting anything else; it simply installs a
> collection of PPD files and a Gimp-Print specific CUPS driver. If
> there is a filename collision somewhere, we need to rename whatever it
> is that is causing the collisions.
OS X has a feature where if you plug in a printer, it automatically
adds it to print center if a drive is available for that
printer. The problem is that in Panther, if the gimp-print drivers
are available in addition to native drivers, CUPS seems to favor
automatically adding the gimp-print driver, not the manufacturer
driver. I have this happen on my laptop all the time, where my 2200
is automatically added using the gimp-print driver, not
Epson's. Also, the added printer (using gp drivers) has an
identical name as the Epson version. So I end up with two "Stylus
Photo 2200" entries, not knowing which one is Epson's or gp.
The solution, then, is to manually delete both entries, and add the
Epson one if that's what you want to use.
Thanks. That behavior certainly doesn't sound right; if there are
multiple appropriate drivers I'd think it should offer the driver
source in addition to the printer name.
Tyler, do you think that there's anything we could do to flag a
Gimp-Print driver that wouldn't interfere with the autodetection? Or
does the autodetection and the displayed name drive off the same tag?
If we can fix this in 4.2.7 I'd like to do so, because this certainly
is confusing. We've had enough problems of this kind just within
Gimp-Print on Linux and UNIX due to the proliferation of translated
PPD files.
--
Robert Krawitz <email@hidden>
Tall Clubs International --
http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail email@hidden
Project lead for Gimp Print --
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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