Just thought this might interest some people.
luke
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:23:27 -0400
From: Robert L Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Printing-summit] ANNOUNCE: Gutenprint 5.0.1 Release
Gutenprint 5.0.1 is a stable release of Gutenprint 5.0. It contains a
large number of bug fixes and enhancements.
Gutenprint 5.1.3 is also released. It is a development release. It
has very little functionality above that of Gutenprint 5.0.1.
II) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES
A) NEW FEATURES AND FIXES IN GUTENPRINT 5.0.1:
1) New printers supported in this release:
* Dye sublimation printers using the Olympus driver:
Canon CP-10
Fujifilm FinePix NX-500
Kodak Easyshare Printer
Olympus P-S100
Sony DPP-EX5
Sony UP-DR100
* Canon inkjet printers:
The support for these printers is under development, and there
may be issues with these printers. Please check with the
mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you
have any questions.
Canon PIXMA iP2000
Canon PIXMA iP3000
Canon PIXMA iP3100
Canon PIXMA iP4100
Canon PIXMA iP4200
Canon PIXMA iP4300
Canon PIXMA iP5000
Canon PIXMA iP5200
Canon PIXMA iP6700
Canon PIXMA MP150
Canon PIXMA MP500
Canon PIXMA MP700
Canon PIXMA MP730
Canon PIXMA MP750
Canon PIXMA MP760
Canon PIXMA MP770
Canon PIXMA MP780
Canon PIXMA MP790
Canon PIXMA MP830
Canon PIXUS iP3100
Canon PIXUS iP4100
Canon i560
Canon i850
Canon i860
Canon i865
* Epson inkjet printers:
Epson Picturemate Flash
Epson Picturemate Pal
Epson Picturemate Snap
Epson Picturemate PM-200
Epson Picturemate PM-210
Epson Picturemate PM-240
Epson Picturemate PM-250
Epson Picturemate PM-280
Epson Stylus C79+
Epson Stylus C87+
Epson Stylus Photo 1400
Epson Stylus Photo 1410
Epson Stylus Photo R230
Epson Stylus Photo R240 (preliminary)
Epson Stylus Photo R245 (preliminary)
Epson Stylus Photo R260
Epson Stylus Photo R265
Epson Stylus Photo R270
Epson Stylus Photo R350
Epson Stylus Photo R360
Epson Stylus Photo R380
Epson Stylus Photo R390
Epson Stylus Photo RX560
Epson Stylus Photo RX580
Epson Stylus Photo RX590
Epson Stylus Photo RX640
Epson PM A820
Epson PM D870
Epson PM G850
Epson PM G4500
Epson Stylus CX5000
Epson Stylus CX5000F
Epson Stylus CX6000
Epson Stylus CX7000F
The driver for the Stylus Photo 1400 has two separate quality
settings for 720x360 and 720 DPI. The 720x360 DPI Enhanced and
720 DPI High Quality options offer improved quality at some cost
in printing speed. The small format Claria-based printers (R260,
R390, RX580, and related printers) offer 720x360 and 720 DPI
modes approximately equal in quality to the Enhanced and High
Quality modes on the 1400 without a speed penalty.
* Lexmark inkjet and compatible printers:
Compaq IJ1200
Lexmark X73
* PCL laser printers (monochrome only):
Lexmark Optra E220
Xerox WorkCentre M118
2) CUPS 1.2 is now supported using on-the-fly PPD file generation.
In addition, the resolution names are all compliant with the PPD
specification. cups-genppdupdate correctly updates on-the-fly
PPD files. The PPD files now use the correct UTF-8 encoding.
3) The native CUPS driver offers a new Shrink Page If Necessary to
Fit Borders option, enabling the user to choose how to fit the
output to the imageable area of the page. This is useful when a
printer offers a choice of imageable areas, typically normal
(which has margins) and full bleed (which allows printing to the
edge of the paper, or even beyond). The following options are
available:
* Shrink (default): the output is shrunk if necessary to fit the
imageable area of the page. If a printer is capable of
borderless operation but normal margins are selected, the
output will be shrunk. This will print the entire page
(nothing will be lost), but will not preserve the dimensions of
the printout. For example, a line intended to be 10 cm long
may print smaller than that.
* Crop: the output is cropped if necessary to fit the imageable
area of the page. The dimensions of the page will be preserved
(a line intended to be 10 cm long will print out exactly 10
cm), but the edges of the output may be truncated (cropped).
* Expand: the output is expanded from the normal imageable area
to fit the maximum possible imageable area of the page. When
selected on printers capable of full bleed output, in
conjunction with any other necessary options, the output will
be expanded to match the maximum page dimension. The
dimensions of the page will be expanded if necessary beyond the
page size; a line intended to be 10 cm long may print longer
than that.
This option has no effect on printers not capable of full bleed
or other expanded margins. It also has no effect when printing
to CD's or when printing to papers where the paper margin is
wider than the margin offered by the printer.
This behavior is different from Gutenprint 5.0.0; the behavior in
Gutenprint 5.0.0 was equivalent to the Crop option in Gutenprint
5.0.1. The change has been made due to extensive user feedback
that cropping the output leads to unexpected results in normal
printing operation. Users who need exact dimensional accuracy
should use the Crop option with borderless printing enabled.
4) Epson inkjet printers now correctly support borderless printing.
In addition, printing at the top and bottom of the page has been
improved on printers that support borderless printing, although
this is still not perfect in all cases.
Certain printers (in particular the C/D8x and C6x series) do not
print correctly to the bottom of the page with all colors. This
problem is understood, but we do not know when a fix will be
available.
5) The list of resolutions supported on newer Epson printers has
been changed; resolutions of 2880x1440, 5760x1440, 2880x2880, and
5760x2880 (as appropriate) have been added, replacing various
1440x1440 and 1440x2880 enhanced resolutions.
6) The output for the Canon PIXMA printers has been improved.
7) The Canon driver now supports DuplexNoTumble for the PIXMA
iP4000.
8) Roll printing now works correctly on the Epson Stylus Photo
R800.
9) Printing with Canon PIXMA printers connected to windows hosts
(bug 1625202) has been fixed.
10) CD printing has been fixed for the Canon PIXMA iP4000 and iP4200.
11) The Canon driver now also supports the CD fine adjustment controls.
12) The Resolutions for the Canon S300 have been fixed.
13) Some Canon MULTIPASS printers have been renamed to PIXMA.
14) A minor border problem with the R800 and related printers has
been fixed. The standard bottom border is now slightly wider to
eliminate the very bottom of the print from being chopped off.
15) A build problem with the CUPS driver on some systems (in
particular, OS X and any system where --disable-nls is used) has
been fixed.
16) The Postscript driver now handles CMYK input correctly, fixing a
problem with Cinepaint (bug 1701954).
17) The Postscript driver and UI library now handle setting the
locale correctly.
18) The PPD file updater, cups-genppdupdate.5.1, now handles the -n
(don't do anything) correctly. In addition, it handles --help
and --version.
19) The range of sizes for printing custom CD's has been extended
down to 65 mm in both the Epson and Canon drivers.
20) Printing to CD's on Epson printers now works correctly if the
image is not placed at the top of the page.
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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