Is there anyone here who is a seasoned user of GIMP print?
Well, I'm not sure I'd call myself that but lets see if I can help.
(a) how to find which version is installedOpen Apple's Printer Setup Utility
Click on your printer
Click Show info and choose Printer Model in the pop-up menu
It should then show you the driver that is being used, which in my case has the gimp-print version number included.
(b) how to find out if installing a later version overwrites the old one but does not destroy the "printer"As far as I can remember it works fine if you just upgrade, yes it will overwrite the old version, but I think the printer stays set up.
Also, if anyone has a work round (which works) for setting the printer up as an AppleTalk printer via Ethernet and 100BaseT card I would be delighted to hear about it.
As far as I know OSX printing has never been able to use Appletalk.
Using IP is far slower and much more complicated and flaky.Well, it works fine for me. I think perhaps the difference is the driver. Old fashioned Appletalk drivers typically were made by the printer manufacturer and talked directly to the printer in it's own language.
gimp-print simply provides the bridge between the CUPS ghostscript and your printer. ghostscript is a software postscript RIP. Basically you are printing postscript, having a software postscript RIP render it and then the gimp-print drivers translate that into a language your printer can understand. It's a lot more heavy duty processing and tends to be slower, particularly because it renders the whole printed document before sending anything to the printer.
Atlookup sees the printer fine but trying to see it through the printer setup is a non-starter,
See above comment about Appletalk and OSX printing.
the card and I wonder if I should be setting the printer up using the card info and not the printer info but that seems daft. I have tried it many times and got nowhere.It's an ethernet enabled printer? Does that mean it effectively has a print server? Yes I think you should be setting the printer up based on that card.
My personal setup involves an Epson Photo 700 attached to a d-link print server via it's parallel port, the print server is on my ethernet network. In print setup it's the network address of the print server that is important, beyond that it's just a case of selecting the correct gimp-print driver for you printer model.
HTH
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