Gutenprint for amiga

[José Manuel]

Its possible port this printer program to amiga?
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

[ferrellsl]

It would probably be easier to just update the existing Amiga printer subsystem.  Printing has always been the Amiga's Achilles heel.

[mechy]

why? turboprint with ghostscript works pretty well and you can print to nearly any postscript supporting  printer with netprinter.device.Using a network printer pretty much free's you up from the driver problem since you are using postscript. i use a xerox phaser 6130N color laser on a pretty regular basis.

If anything printing from browsers could use help ;/
Mech

[José Manuel]

i know turboprint is a very good option but the problem is for printers not supporting PS
I have a Epson R1800 and not PS supported.
Other and better way is contact with turboprint developers and asking for new versions or new printer drivers(in turboprint linux versions lot of modern printer drivers) i think now the amiga world have important market with classic systems and NG systems ,amigaos 3.9,morphos,Amigaos 4.1.x, usb 2.0 cards for classics.......

[Terminills]

Its possible port this printer program to amiga?
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Nope or is it?

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2715/gsijs.png

[magnetic]

Terminillis for President!

[danbeaver]

TurboPrint for the Amiga hasn't been updated in years. But I agree with Mech, printing across my network (you can't use AmiTCP) to my PS printer give the best output and HP inkjets (even new ones) are still supported by the Amiga. Final Writer and PageStream give the best looking documents. It is also easy to change printers with the click of an Icon that runs a short script changing ENV parameters.  

As far as the GIMP-print goes, it would likely run under OS4.1 on a NG Amiga; Classics just don't have the chutzpah to get those programs to really run

[Terminills]

TurboPrint for the Amiga hasn't been updated in years. But I agree with Mech, printing across my network (you can't use AmiTCP) to my PS printer give the best output and HP inkjets (even new ones) are still supported by the Amiga. Final Writer and PageStream give the best looking documents. It is also easy to change printers with the click of an Icon that runs a short script changing ENV parameters.  

As far as the GIMP goes, it would likely run under OS4.1 on a NG Amiga; Classics just don't have the chutzpah to get those programs to really run

gimp-print is not gimp.  it was originally designed as high quality drivers for gimp and eventually moved to being a stand alone driver subsystem.

[slaapliedje]

Gutenprint (Gimp-print) would be awesome on the Amiga.

I recently was looking into setting up my printer (HP OfficeJet 8500A Pro) on my Amiga and couldn't figure out what driver I needed, unfortunately it doesn't support PCL5 or PCL6, instead it says it supports PCL3 Enhanced, which I've never even heard of.

But then I got distracted by other things...

Any clue on what driver I could use for an OfficeJet?

slaapliedje

[Terminills]

Gutenprint (Gimp-print) would be awesome on the Amiga.

I recently was looking into setting up my printer (HP OfficeJet 8500A Pro) on my Amiga and couldn't figure out what driver I needed, unfortunately it doesn't support PCL5 or PCL6, instead it says it supports PCL3 Enhanced, which I've never even heard of.

But then I got distracted by other things...

Any clue on what driver I could use for an OfficeJet?

slaapliedje

that requires hplip which is also an ijs driver package.

[magnetic]

Terminillis

When will this be ready?

[danbeaver]

gimp-print is not gimp.  it was originally designed as high quality drivers for gimp and eventually moved to being a stand alone driver subsystem.

Yes, I understand that, but the Open Source (GPL) type of software runs in Linux and without the PPC of the NG Amigas one would have a hard time in converting it without AmiCygnix.  But feel free to go ahead and do so, I'll look forward to your efforts.

[nicholas]

Yes, I understand that, but the Open Source (GPL) type of software runs in Linux and without the PPC of the NG Amigas one would have a hard time in converting it without AmiCygnix.  But feel free to go ahead and do so, I'll look forward to your efforts.

Why would printer drivers require an X Server?

[Terminills]

Why would printer drivers require an X Server?

It doesn't it compiled and ran in 20 minutes with ixemul.

[Terminills]

Yes, I understand that, but the Open Source (GPL) type of software runs in Linux and without the PPC of the NG Amigas one would have a hard time in converting it without AmiCygnix.  But feel free to go ahead and do so, I'll look forward to your efforts.