[clug] 'Gutenprint' (was gimp-print) for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL printers

[steve jenkin]

Has anyone tried Gutenprint/gimp-print on Linux for Canon PIXMA
printers?? Support for these on FOSS has generally been poor.


"High quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL
printers for use with CUPS, Ghostscript, Foomatic, and GIMP."

<http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Features.php>
"Gutenprint is a package of high quality printer drivers for Linux, BSD,
Solaris, Macintosh OS X, IRIX, and other UNIX-alike operating systems.
In many cases, these drivers rival or exceed the OEM drivers in quality
and functionality. "

Supported printers
<http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php>

Download
<http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Download.php>
"Users of other operating systems, such as Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, HP-UX, etc. should download the main package, named
"gutenprint-5.0.0.tar.bz2". This is a "source tarball"; it contains the
source code for the package and must be compiled to produce binary
executables.
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