Print to GDI-supported printers with 10.3

Dec 01, '04 09:56:00AM

Contributed by: ccwu

This is posted to help people out who may be trying to print from Panther (10.3) using GIMP Print, but are not having any success. This is especially helpful if you had a printer that worked with GimpPrint under Jaguar (10.2) and stopped in Panther. This solution applied to the following configuration:

The Samsung Printer has GDI printer description files available. Get these and install them. Also install GIMP Print. Now here's the kicker. The documentation says that Panther users do not have to install ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1. That may be true, but I was not able to get the Samsung ML-1210 to work without it. So if you are able to successfully send a file to your print server, but no print job comes out, install ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1, and it should work.

Follow the configuration details to add the printer, as explained in this hint. Hope this helps and saves you time; if you have a printer that can be supported using CUPS and Gimp Print, then try installing ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1 and it should work.

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