[cups.general] Cups

[Michael Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 
> 
>>Well, considering that the IJS interface is currently the
>>only possibility to use epson inkjet printers and taking
>>your last sentence into account, which for me means that
>>the gimprint+ijs driver might be removed in the
>>future, I'm now more worried than I have been before.
>>
> 
> 
> Read again.
> 
> The gimp-print drivers do provide exactly the same
> functionality in both their incarnations.
> 
> * One incarnation is the  "gimpprint+ijs+<all-new-versions-of->ghostscript"
>   interface
> 
> * The other is the "gimpprint+cups+espghostscript" interface.
> 
> The ijs-Version used the IJS plugin mechanism. The CUPS version
> uses the "device" cups which is compiled into all versions
> of ESP Ghostscript (and hopefully into all future versions of
> AFPL Ghostscript too.)

The current pstoraster device compiles just fine against Ghostscript
8.x, although currently you cannot distribute the two together due
to the differences in licenses...

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