Gutenprint

Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-Print ) is a collection of free printer driver dar. The name of the project was changed because " Gimp " in the name suggesting the assumption that these printer drivers only work with GIMP.

Functions

The drivers for Canon, Brother, Epson, Kyocera, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL printers come in CUPS, Foomatic, and GIMP for use. The main effort is thus in free operating systems such as Linux. But Gutenprint also comes in other unix based system such as Mac OS X for use. About 700 different printers are supported.

History

The Gimp-Print drivers were initially actually the printer drivers for the graphics program GIMP and written by Michael Sweet, 1999.

The first version, which was published on the Internet development platform SourceForge, was numbered 3.1. In November 2000, Version 4.0 was released.

Version 4.2 was released in November 2001, here CUPS was supported. After the release of Apple's Mac OS X turned out that many printer manufacturers no longer updated their drivers for older printers, whereupon Gimp-Print has been for many users the only option to continue to operate their old printer. Due to the ever-increasing number of features new printer but it soon became clear that a major step for a new version would be necessary. The jump to the version number 5 should make it clear that many new features were added. In addition, it was decided in autumn 2004 a name change, because the project had now almost nothing to do with GIMP. The new name " Gutenprint " is inspired by the inventor of the printing press, Johannes Gutenberg.

On July 30, 2006 Development time version 5.0 was released after four years. This did not include, as originally planned, genuine color management.