Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Printer Setup
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:53:39
Message-Id: 20061011025146.GA14181@crud.crud.mn.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Printer Setup by sean
1 sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > Why is printing from a Unix type box so painful!?!?!
3
4 Historically, I would say, it has been painful in general, not just on
5 Unix boxes.
6
7 > Sorry, just frustrated again with this topic.
8 >
9 > Anyway, trying to print from Gimp and when I print out the picture all I
10 > get is all sorts of nonsense text strings.
11
12 What type of printer, what version of Gimp, what printing plug-in for
13 Gimp?
14
15 (For example, my situation: a PostScript level 3 printer, Gimp 2.3.x,
16 a recent version of Gutenprint installed with a Portage overlay.)
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19 --
20 Barry.SCHWARTZ at chemoelectric.org http://chemoelectric.org
21 Free stuff / Senpagaj varoj: http://crudfactory.com (PDF)
22 'Democracies don't war; democracies are peaceful countries.' - Bush
23 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/12/20051219-2.html)

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Printer Setup Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com>