<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >The User's Guide to the Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer Drivers</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.64 "><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Project History" HREF="c29.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="BOOK" ><DIV CLASS="BOOK" ><A NAME="AEN1" ></A ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >The User's Guide to the Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer Drivers</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN6" >Andy Stewart</A ></H3 ><P CLASS="COPYRIGHT" ><A HREF="ln12.html" >Copyright</A > © 2002 by Andy Stewart</P ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN16" ></A ><P ></P ><P > The Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer Drivers (hereafter called Gimp-Print) are a set of printer drivers written to take advantage of the full capabilities of a wide range of printers. These drivers should work on any POSIX compliant operating system (e.g. Linux, Solaris, IRIX, etc). This document will explain how to use the Gimp-Print software to achieve high quality printouts from the <A HREF="http://www.gimp.org" TARGET="_top" >GIMP</A > (GNU Image Manipulation Program) and <A HREF="http://www.cups.org" TARGET="_top" >CUPS</A > (Common Unix Printing System). </P ><P > Please note that in addition to using the Gimp-Print software as a print plugin for the GIMP, and as a set of printer drivers for CUPS, this software can also be compiled and used with the <A HREF="http://www.ghostscript.com" TARGET="_top" >Ghostscript</A > software and with the <A HREF="http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html" TARGET="_top" >Foomatic</A > software. </P ><P >Regardless of whether the Gimp-Print software is used with the GIMP, CUPS, Ghostscript, or Foomatic, the print quality and printer settings remain the same. However, use of the Gimp-Print with Ghostscript and Foomatic is not covered in this document. These topics may be covered in a future revision of this document. </P ><P > This document corresponds to version 4.2.0 and later of the Gimp-Print software. This document will serve as a guide to the user, and as such will not explain how to install Gimp-Print, CUPS, GIMP, Ghostscript, Foomatic, or any other related software. </P ><P > Andy Stewart, the author, is the founder of the <A HREF="http://www.wlug.org" TARGET="_top" >Worcester Linux Users' Group</A > in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. The group was founded in July 1997 and has approximately 140 people on its mailing list. Monthly meetings are held and all are invited. </P ><P > In terms of "code", this is the author's first contribution to the open source community, and definitely his first experience with DocBook. Constructive comments, praise, words of encouragement, and the like will be most appreciated if e-mailed to the <A HREF="mailto:andystewart@attbi.com" TARGET="_top" >author</A >. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="c29.html" >Project History</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="ch-gimp-and-gimp-print.html" >GIMP and Gimp-Print</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="ch-gimp-and-gimp-print.html#AEN63" >Running the GIMP</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html" >The Gimp-Print Graphical User Interface</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN130" >Printer Settings</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN234" >Preview</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN258" >Position</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN330" >Size</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN357" >Image/Output Settings</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x85.html#AEN430" >Printing and Saving Settings</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="c447.html" >CUPS and Gimp-Print</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="c447.html#AEN449" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x456.html" >CUPS Printer Installation</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x548.html" >Configuring your Printer in CUPS</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x562.html" >Using CUPS from the Command Line</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="c570.html" >Gimp-Print Utilities</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN572" >escputil</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN584" >Determining Ink Level</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN593" >Error During Ink Level Determination</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN597" >Nozzle Check</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN602" >Clean the Print Head</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN608" >Align the Print Head</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN624" >Printer Identification</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="c570.html#AEN628" >More Information</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DD ><DT >A. <A HREF="gfdl.html" >GNU Free Documentation License</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >0. <A HREF="gfdl.html#AEN637" >PREAMBLE</A ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x642.html" >APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</A ></DT ><DT >2. <A HREF="x652.html" >VERBATIM COPYING</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="x656.html" >COPYING IN QUANTITY</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="x662.html" >MODIFICATIONS</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="x698.html" >COMBINING DOCUMENTS</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x703.html" >COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="x707.html" >AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="x711.html" >TRANSLATION</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="x714.html" >TERMINATION</A ></DT ><DT >10. <A HREF="x717.html" >FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE</A ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="x722.html" >How to use this License for your documents</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ></DL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="LOT" ><DL CLASS="LOT" ><DT ><B >List of Figures</B ></DT ><DT >2-1. <A HREF="ch-gimp-and-gimp-print.html#AEN67" >The Startup Window for The GIMP</A ></DT ><DT >2-2. <A HREF="ch-gimp-and-gimp-print.html#AEN78" >A Sample Image Displayed by The GIMP</A ></DT ><DT >2-3. <A HREF="x85.html#FIG-GIMP-PRINT-GUI" >The Gimp-Print Graphical User Interface 1 (GUI)</A ></DT ><DT >2-4. <A HREF="x85.html#FIG-GIMP-PRINT-GUI-1" >The Gimp-Print Graphical User Interface 2 (GUI)</A ></DT ><DT >2-5. <A HREF="x85.html#AEN153" >The Setup Printer Window</A ></DT ><DT >2-6. <A HREF="x85.html#AEN168" >The New Printer Window</A ></DT ><DT >2-7. <A HREF="x85.html#FIG-GIMP-PRINT-COLOR-ADJUST" >The Print Color Adjust Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-1. <A HREF="x456.html#AEN460" >The CUPS Startup Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-2. <A HREF="x456.html#AEN470" >The CUPS Printers Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-3. <A HREF="x456.html#AEN479" >The CUPS Admin Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-4. <A HREF="x456.html#FIG-CUPS-ADMIN-DEVICE" >The CUPS Admin Device Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-5. <A HREF="x456.html#AEN498" >The CUPS Admin Model/Driver Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-6. <A HREF="x456.html#FIG-CUPS-ADMIN-MODEL" >The 2nd CUPS Admin Model/Driver Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-7. <A HREF="x456.html#AEN530" >The CUPS Admin Success Window</A ></DT ><DT >3-8. <A HREF="x456.html#FIG-CUPS-MY-PRINTER" >The CUPS Window for Your Printer</A ></DT ><DT >3-9. <A HREF="x548.html#FIG-CUPS-PRINTER-CONFIG-WINDOW" >The CUPS Printer Cofiguration Window</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c29.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Project History</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >