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gs-esp package

  1. Bug #36532
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 36532

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote : Re: Unable to print text or ps/pdf to gutenprint printer

Geoff wrote:
> When using the gutenprint driver with my "Epson
> Stylus-Photo-720", images print but not pdf/ps/text. Cups
> error_log says:
> E [25/Mar/2006:16:30:29 +1200] Unable to convert file 0 to
> printable format for job 1!
> I [25/Mar/2006:16:30:29 +1200] Hint: Do you have ESP
> Ghostscript installed?

What version of ESP Ghostscript do you have installed?
Please post the output of the printingbuginfo script, it can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrintingBugInfoScript

> I have solved this problem by adding the Foomatic filter:
> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 foomatic-rip"
> to the PPD generated file. This solves the problem and gives
> much better output quality than the non gutenprint driver.

Can you attach the ppd file for your printer that did not work (before you altered it).

> Also it would be nice if gnome-cups-manager only listed (or at
> lease selected by default) the gutenprint driver when setting
> up a printer.
According to www.linuxprinting.org the gimp-print driver is still recommended for the Epson Stylus Photo 720. Ubuntu only includes gutenprint, the successor of gimp-print. Normally the gutenprint driver is expected to work equally well or even better than gimp-print.
You are right that Stp720p.upp is incorrectly indicated as the recommended driver, I will need to further invistigate why this happened. Since Ubuntu uses the linuxprinting.org database the expected behavior would be that neither gutenprint nor stp720p.upp should be recommended.