gimp print are the best printer drivers available. They are often even
better than windows drivers (speaking of ink jet experience).
Epson photo 890 printers work a 2880 dpi with no overhead. Clear and
crisp output. So cups + gimp print 4.1.99 is the best choice, with kups
setup.
Unfortunately, cooker has always been slow at updating the drivers
(4.1.99 alpha2 has been long to get in).
Now 4.1.99 alpha3, wich brings many improvements and many bug fixes has
been out for some time, you can get it from:
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Build and install it, and start kups (wich allows detailed printer
setup) to setup your printer.
On 23 Aug 2001 14:03:58 +0200, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> I just experimented a bit with printerdrake and various drivers/settings with
> my HP Deskjet 890C.
>
> First the versions of some of the packages:
> cups-1.1.10-1mdk
> cups-drivers-1.1-4mdk
> foomatic-1.1-0.20010812mdk
> libgimpprint4-4.1.99-5mdk
> gimp-1.2.2-3mdk
> libgimp1.2_1-1.2.2-3mdk
> gimpprint-4.1.99-5mdk
> libgimpprint4-devel-4.1.99-5mdk
> drakxtools-1.1.7-6mdk
> ghostscript-6.51-13mdk
>
> I had this drivers in printerdrake available:
> CUPS + Gimp-Print 4.1.99-a2 (en)
> GhostScript + cdj890
> GhostScript + gimp-print
> GhostScript + gimp-print (recommended)
> GhostScript + pcl3
>
> Don't know what's the difference is between GhostScript + gimp-print and
> GhostScript + gimp-print (recommended), it seems the same? I have only tried
> the recommended one.
>
> Results:
> GhostScript + gimp-print (recommended)
> Works fine with the default settings. When I set the "GhostScript
> Resolultion" setting to 600x600 and the "Quality" setting both to 600x600
> monochrome, the standard test page did not print out correctly: I only got a
> white paper whith a thick black border with white speckles on the left and
> upper side, about 1 cm thick.
>
> CUPS + Gimp-Print 4.1.99-a2 (en)
> When choosing this driver, printerdrake bombed out with this message on the
> console: Cannot open file /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/driver/CUPS +
> GIMP-Print v4.1.99-a2.xml
> Unable to load driver - does it exist?
> foomatic-configure failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/printer.pm line 677.
>
> GhostScript + cdj890
> Works fine with default settings (= "Printing Quality""Presentation").
> Quality seems to me personally a bit better than the GhostScript + gimp-print
> (recommended), because everything seems a bit sharper.
>
> GhostScript + pcl3
> With default settings (= Resolution: 300 DPI, "Quality" set to "Default
> Setting"), works OK. Gives the best quality for text, very sharp and clear,
> but colour output is very "grainy". Maybe this can be solved by tweaking the
> "Intensity Rendering", I have not tried this though.
> When changing the resolution of this driver to 600 DPI or 300 x 600 DPI,
> nothing happens when trying to print the test pages, no error message is
> given.
>
> Frederik Himpe
>
