Printer Driver Contribution

Neil Woolford neil at neilwoolford.co.uk
Fri Jan 7 13:02:29 UTC 2005


At 06:56 07/01/05, Rich Duzenbury wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 17:16 +1100, David Collett wrote:
> >
> > Can I suggest adding the package "cupsys-driver-gimpprint" to 'main'
> > and making it a core ubuntu package (gimp-print is already in 'main')
> > ?
> >
> > It really adds support for a LOT of very common printers to ubuntu's
> > gnome-cups-manager, and may help many people whose printer would not
> > otherwise appear in the list. Furthermore, the package is not an
> > intuitive one for a new user to add if their printer is not listed
> > without it.
>Hear, Hear!  My epson stylus cx3200 multi function device was not
>working until this bit of sage advice.
>
>Earlier, I had tried a number of the epson drivers in the default warty
>install, to no avail.

Exactly my experience too.   Those drivers have a much wider application
than their name would suggest.

Neil



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