Printer Driver Contribution

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:16:39PM +1100, David Collett wrote:

> Sorry to hijack the thread, but "Printer Driver Contribution" seems like
> an appropriate place to say this...
> 
> 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.

It would be preferable if these PPDs were usable by the existing foomatic
infrastructure, rather than pulling in gimp-print.  LaMont was looking into
the situation here, but I don't recall what came of it.  LaMont?

We should definitely address this issue for Hoary.

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 - mdz