"Keith G. Murphy" wrote: > > Joakim Svensson wrote: > > > > Hi Debian users, > > > > I am wondering if there is any ghostscript > > GhostScript 5.50 or gs-aladdin 6.50 with > > the gimp print stp driver compiled in as a > > dep packet ? > > I had one built once upon a time for a version of gs-aladdin, but seem > to have lost it. Since then, the one I had installed got "upgraded", so > I'm in the position of trying to build one anew. > > But look what I found on SourceForge a few days ago: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1537&release_id=19032 > > There's a deb in there (gs 5.10)! I've upgraded to that; however I > haven't tried it yet because: > > (1) It requires a lot of really recent (unstable) libraries, like > libc6. I even had to upgrade xfree, and I haven't got that working > again yet. First things first. > > (2) I'll have to create the proper magicfilter for it, which I'll try to > do this time using the resources (foomatic) at www.linuxprinting.org. > Or I may go with CUPS this time. > OK, finally got everything working.
I went with CUPS (because folks seem enthusiastic about it, and I thought it would be fun to try). I installed that gs w/stp deb from SourceForge, the cupsomatic filter from www.linuxprinting.org, and the Epson 740 ppd file from the same place. It all works quite nicely. At this point, I am adjusting the different parameters to get the printer to more accurately reproduce images, in terms of colors, brightness, etc., matching what I see on the screen. (Not that it's bad right now). To do this, I needed to install xpp, since the CUPS web-based configuration cannot handle numeric configuration values. There is a fix to xpp needed; a logical link was not made. Renzo Bagnati posted this fix a few days ago: ln -s /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 /usr/lib/libcups.so
