Gutenprint 5.0 User's Manual Robert Krawitz March 4, 2007 Gutenprint 5.0 User's Manual Copyright © 2000-2007 Robert Krawitz Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation with no invariant sections, no Front-Cover texts, and no Back-Cover texts. Gutenprint 5.0 is licensed in its entirety under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The CUPS code (in src/cups) is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2; the balance of the code is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. EPSON, ESC/P, and Stylus are registered trademarks of Seiko Epson Corp. ESC/P2 is a trademark of Seiko Epson Corp. All other product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their vendors. 2 Gutenprint 5.0 User's Manual 03/04/2007 Table of Contents 1) Introduction............................................................................................................................................5 1.1) What is Gutenprint?.......................................................................................................................5 1.2) History of Gutenprint.....................................................................................................................5 1.2.1) The early years: Gimp-Print 3.x and 4.0................................................................................5 1.2.2) Gimp-Print 4.2........................................................................................................................6 1.2.3) Gimp-Print Becomes Gutenprint............................................................................................7 1.3) Note to Packagers and Distributors................................................................................................8 2) General Requirements............................................................................................................................9 3) Installation...........................................................................................................................................10 3.1) Overview......................................................................................................................................10 3.2) Core Driver Library.....................................................................................................................12 3.3) CUPS............................................................................................................................................12 3.4) Foomatic.......................................................................................................................................17 3.5) The GIMP.....................................................................................................................................18 3.6) escputil.........................................................................................................................................19 3.7) Other Packages.............................................................................................................................19 4) Getting Started.....................................................................................................................................21 4.1) Printer Installation........................................................................................................................21 4.1.1) CUPS....................................................................................................................................21 4.1.2) Foomatic...............................................................................................................................22 4.1.3) The GIMP.............................................................................................................................24 4.2) Configuring Printer Options.........................................................................................................27 4.3) Using escputil...............................................................................................................................30 5) Solving Problems.................................................................................................................................32 6) Release Notes.......................................................................................................................................33 6.1) Overall Changes Between Gimp-Print 4.2 and Gutenprint 5.0....................................................33 6.1.1) General User-Visible Changes.............................................................................................33 6.1.2) New Functionality................................................................................................................34 6.1.3) Changes to the Enhanced Print Plugin for The GIMP.........................................................36 6.1.4) Changes to the CUPS Interface............................................................................................37 6.1.5) Changes to the Ghostscript Driver.......................................................................................38 6.1.6) Changes to Foomatic Data Generation.................................................................................38 6.1.7) Quality Improvements..........................................................................................................39 6.1.8) Architectural Changes..........................................................................................................40 6.2) Exceptions and Workarounds.......................................................................................................42 6.2.1) General Issues.......................................................................................................................42 6.2.2) Build/Installation Issues.......................................................................................................43 6.2.2.1) Incorrect Generation of CUPS PPD Files.....................................................................43 6.2.2.2) CUPS PPD Files are Not Translated.............................................................................44 6.2.2.3) Issues with Building and Installing Foomatic Data......................................................46 6.2.2.4) Problems Building escputil...........................................................................................47 6.2.2.5) Problems Building the Print plugin for the GIMP........................................................48 6.3) Printer-Specific Notes..................................................................................................................48 7) List of Supported Printers....................................................................................................................51 8) List of Supported Options....................................................................................................................67 8.1) Printer Options.............................................................................................................................67 8.1.1) Basic Printer Options............................................................................................................67 3 Gutenprint 5.0 User's Manual 03/04/2007 8.1.2) Advanced Printer Options....................................................................................................68 8.1.3) Specialized Printer Options..................................................................................................69 8.2) Output Controls............................................................................................................................70 8.2.1) Basic Output Controls..........................................................................................................70 8.2.2) Basic Output Adjustments....................................................................................................73 8.2.3) Advanced Output Adjustments.............................................................................................74 8.2.4) Output Density (Ink Quantity) Controls...............................................................................75 8.2.5) Gray Balance Controls.........................................................................................................76 8.2.6) Output Gamma Controls......................................................................................................76 8.3) Specialized Adjustments..............................................................................................................77 8.3.1) Gray Generation Controls....................................................................................................77 8.3.2) Output Linearization Controls..............................................................................................78 8.3.3) Advanced Color Correction Curves.....................................................................................79 8.3.4) Transition Controls...............................................................................................................80 8.3.5) Miscellaneous Output Controls............................................................................................81