Upstream change summary (see NEWS for details):
*) The Ghostscript IJS driver and Foomatic data generator have been
removed. CUPS is ubiquitous on Linux/UNIX systems, and the
Ghostscript IJS driver and Foomatic data are not needed with
CUPS.
*) New/improved support for many dyesub printers, including media
status reporting.
*) Added/improved support for many printers.
*) Removed support for Brother HL-1430.
As of 5.2.11, Gutenprint no longer supports Macintosh OS X
10.5.
Upstream changes are voluminous and have many details and have
therefore been aggressively summarized. See NEWS in the sources.
* Changes from 5.2.10
1) Added support for many following dye sublimation printers.
2) Enhanced support (and bugfixes) for many dye sublimation
printers.
3) Added support for the Datamax-O'Neil PCL printers, the Performance
series (p1115, p1115s, p1120n, p1125, p1725, h8308) and the
Datamax-O'Neil Workstation printer.
Also added common Imperial and Metric label sizes to the Paper
Selection menu.
4) Added support for the following Epson inkjet printers:
EPSON L120
EPSON L210
EPSON L1800 (preliminary)
5) Add support for the following laser printer:
Kyocera FS-1135MFP
6) Canon inkjet driver enhancements:
Added support for many models and multiple enhancements.
7) Canon inkjet driver bugfixes:
6.1 Ink compression fixed
A problem with a new ink level compression added in 5.2.7 had
affected multiple printer models. The bug has been fixed in the
present release, thus all modes previously affected should work
normally.
Gutenprint 5.2.10 no longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.4 or earlier.
[See NEWS for the list of printers; ~1000 lines were omitted from this
commit message.]
1) Added a unified CUPS backend to support selected dye sublimation
printers.
2) New printers supported in this release:
[many]
3) The following Canon printer models were not added, as they cannot
currently be supported, even experimentally, owing to an as-yet
unknown command format or other issues:
[several]
4) Corrected page dimensions for borderless printing with Canon
inkjet printers.
5) Added duplex support for the EPSON WorkForce 630, 635, and 645,
and NX635
6) Expanded printable area at the bottom of the page for the Epson
Stylus Pro 3800 and 3880.
7) Added IEEE1284 device IDs for the following printers.
[many]
8) Added Catalan, Turkish, and Vietnamese translations.
* Changes from 5.2.7
1) The Canon driver has been significantly overhauled for this
release, and output (and in some cases functionality) may be
significantly different from previous releases. We expect to
perform further work in future releases. Specific changes
include:
[Massive list of Canon printers with changes]
2) New printers supported in this release:
[many]
3) A problem whereby printing did not work at all on some Linux
distributions has been fixed (3299815 CUPS PPD broken on Linux).
4) A crash with the EPSON Stylus Photo R3000 has been fixed.
5) Printing on the Epson Stylus NX200, SX200, and SX205 is believed
to be corrected.
6) A build problem with libgutenprintui2 and testpattern on certain
platforms has been fixed.
7) Chinese (Mandarin), Galician, and Ukrainian translations have
been added.
8) (API) Added function stp_vars_copy_from() to override settings in
one settings object with those in another.
for full details):
1) New printers supported in this release:
- Canon inkjet printers (many):
- Epson inkjet printers (many):
- Dye sublimation printers:
Kodak EasyShare G600 Printer Dock
Kodak PD-4000
Kodak PD-6000
Kodak Photo Printer
Kodak Photo Printer 500
Kodak Printer Dock Plus
Kodak Printer Dock Plus S3
2) Corrected color matching profile used for Mac OS X 10.5.x.
sRGB will now be used instead of Generic RGB. Users with work-
flows dependant on the previously used Generic RGB can select
this color profile in the print window by using ColorSync to
choose the profile rather than using VendorMatching.
9) Corrected base density for Photo Paper on printers using Claria
ink (use 20% less ink). The default results in heavy ink
puddling in some cases.
12) A problem whereby certain malformed PPD files would cause the
PostScript driver to crash has been fixed. In addition, the
PostScript driver now runs considerably faster.
* Changes from 5.2.3
1) New printers supported in this release:
Canon PIXMA iX4000
Canon SELPHY CP-520
EPSON Stylus Photo R2880
EPSON Stylus DX4000
2) Printing to the Epson PM-D600 has been corrected.
3) Printing using the manual sheet guide on the Epson Stylus Photo
R2400 has been corrected.
4) Printing to the EPSON Artisan 700 and 800 and Stylus Photo
P/TX700 and 800 series printers has been corrected. Among other
issues, it should now be possible to print reliably using the
photo tray.
5) The names of the following Epson printers have been corrected:
EPSON Stylus Photo PX700W
EPSON Stylus Photo TX700W
EPSON Stylus Photo PX800FW
EPSON Stylus Photo TX800FW
6) The names of various Ricoh and Ricoh-based printers have been
corrected to match Ricoh's model names and the OpenPrinting
database.
7) The EPSON inkjet utility, escputil, now correctly prints the
color name for low ink warnings.
8) Printing resolution names have been fixed in non-English locales
in CUPS PPD files.
9) A Russian translation has been added. The Danish and Italian
translations have been updated.
10) Support has been added for L-size paper with tear-off borders.
11) The ordering of inks in quadtone ink sets on Epson printers has
been corrected. In addition, support has been added for MIS
quadtone and 6 tone inks.
12) It is now possible to adjust the ink parameters for quadtone
inks in CUPS. Previously, these parameters could only be
adjusted in the enhanced Print plugin for GIMP and other native
Gutenprint applications.
13) Updating CUPS PPD files is now faster.
