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[edit] Printing on linux

[edit] Reference links

• CUPS
• Linux Printing
• Ghostscript
• Gimp Print

[edit] Constraints and solutions

• few printers supported ==> less drivers, less PPD files, less auto-detection problems.
• printing limited in one quality? (600dpi)
• only one printer simultaneously
• no possibility for the user to configure his printer

[edit] Space disk problems

• few space == no spooler, writing directly /dev/ (read foomatic page here http://www.linuxprinting.org/direct-doc.html)

[edit] Program dependencies problems

• using foomatic + no-spool == ghostscript and perl installation
• Gimp-Print doesn't use ghostscript to print on the other hand, if one wishes to use gimp-print drivers, we must compile IJS support of gimp.

[edit] List of supported printers

• Epson Stylus D68 **
• Epson PictureMate 100 ***
• Epson Stylus DX3850 **
• Epson Stylus Photo RX520 ** [The 520 model is no longer present in the database]

[edit] Selected solutions

• Usage of [wiki:Ghostscript Ghostscript] + IJS Gutenprint driver
• Fonts installation (ghostscript fonts) to print documents
• Usage of the lpr (9lpr) program which directly print on the right device

[edit] PPDs

• One ppd file per supported printer is necessary to able to print. These are generated by the following command:

/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile cat foomatic-ppdfile:Epson-Stylus_D68-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd > Epson-Stylus_D68-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile cat foomatic-ppdfile:Epson-PictureMate-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd > Epson-PictureMate-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile cat foomatic-ppdfile:Epson-Stylus_DX3850-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd > Epson-Stylus_DX3850-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile cat foomatic-ppdfile:Epson-Stylus_Photo_RX510-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd > Epson-Stylus_Photo_RX510-gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd

The name of the ppd file is obtained by using the followinf command:

/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile -A
/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile list

Script generating all .ppd files

#!/bin/sh

for ppd in $(/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile list | grep -- -gutenprint-ijs.5.0.ppd | cut -f 2 -d \" | cut -f 2 -d :); do \
	/usr/bin/foomatic-ppdfile cat foomatic-ppdfile:$ppd > $ppd;	\
done