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authorDidier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100
committerDidier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>2016-02-16 15:15:42 +0100
commita313257bdec71bc92a56598e74d9097c16cb6e48 (patch)
treebce77ca349366ab4c81d847e710693fb50d55620 /NEWS
parent82a5e2a21f1cc4ea142514a1a045a63158f10256 (diff)
Imported Upstream version 5.2.11
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.11-pre2, a pre-release of Gutenprint
-5.2.11. Please read these release notes carefully.
+Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.11, a stable release of Gutenprint
+5.2. Please read these release notes carefully.
Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers that may be used with most
common UNIX print spooling systems, including CUPS, lpr, LPRng, or
-others. Gutenprint currently supports over 2000 printer models.
+others. Gutenprint currently supports over 2500 printer models.
These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX, Linux, and
Macintosh OS X (10.6 and above) systems. Gutenprint includes CUPS and
Foomatic drivers, and an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP that replaces
@@ -260,32 +260,62 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES
1) Added support for the following dye sublimation printers:
Canon SELPHY CP820/CP910
- Ciaat Brava 21 [experimental]
- Citizen CW-01 / Olmec OP900
DNP DS620
- DNP DS80DX [experimental]
- Kodak 305 [experimental]
+ Citizen CW-01 / Olmec OP900
+ Mitsubishi CP3800DW
+ Mitsubishi CP-9550DW-S
Kodak 8810 [experimental]
Kodak 7000/7010/7015 [experimental]
- Mitsubishi CP-D80DW [experimental]
- Mitsubishi CP3800DW
- Shinko S1245/S6145/S6245 [experimental]
Sony UP-CR10/DNP SL10 [experimental]
+ DNP DS80DX [experimental]
+ Sinfonia S1245/CE [experimental]
+ Sinfonia S6245/CE2 [experimental]
+ Kodak 305 [experimental] [*1]
+ Ciaat Brava 21 [experimental] [*1]
+ Mitsubishi CP-D80DW [experimental] [*1]
+ Sinfonia S6145/CS2 [experimental] [*1]
+
+ [*1] Please note that these models utilize a print engine that
+ requires the host system to process the print data using
+ unknown algorithms. Until these algorithms can be determined
+ and re-implemented, these models are unsuitable for general
+ use due to very poor output quality.
2) Enhanced support (and bugfixes) for the following dye sublimation
printers:
- Canon SELPHY CP900
+ Added multicut (eg 2*2x6) support:
+
Citizen CX/CX-W/CY
DNP DS40/DS80/RX1
+ Sony UP-DR200
+ Sinfonia S2145/CS
+ Mitsubishi CP-9550 family
+ Mitsubishi CP-D70DW/D707DW/K60DW-S [experimental] [*1]
+
+ Improved 5x7 support:
+
+ Citizen CX/CY
+ DNP DS40/RX1
+
+ General backend stability and robustness:
+
+ Canon SELPHY CP900
+ Citizen CX/CX-WCY
+ DNP DS40/DS80/RX1
Kodak 605
Kodak 6800/6850
Kodak 1400/805
- Mitsubishi CP-9550 family (including the CP9550DW-S variant)
- Mitsubishi CP-D70DW/D707DW/K60DW-S [experimental]
+ Mitsubishi CP-9550 family
Sony UP-DR200
- Shinko S2145
-
+ Mitsubishi CP-D70DW/D707DW/K60DW-S [experimental] [*1]
+
+ [*1] Please note that these models utilize a print engine that
+ requires the host system to process the print data using
+ unknown algorithms. Until these algorithms can be determined
+ and re-implemented, these models are unsuitable for general
+ use due to very poor output quality.
+
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.
@@ -297,8 +327,13 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES
EPSON L120
EPSON L210
+ EPSON L1800 (preliminary)
+
+ 5) Add support for the following laser printer:
+
+ Kyocera FS-1135MFP
- 5) Canon inkjet driver enhancements:
+ 6) Canon inkjet driver enhancements:
Added support for following models:
@@ -666,7 +701,7 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES
Canon BJC 4300
- 6) Canon inkjet driver bugfixes:
+ 7) Canon inkjet driver bugfixes:
6.1 Ink compression fixed
@@ -2997,8 +3032,7 @@ A) GENERAL USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
ensure that you are using GIMP 2.0 or above.
2) Gutenprint 5.2 no longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.2; it now
- requires 10.3 (Panther) or higher. This is due to a new library
- requirement (for the iconv library) that is not present in 10.2.
+ requires 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or higher.
3) Color Correction is now shown on the basic output adjustment
menu rather than the advanced menu.
@@ -3088,6 +3122,7 @@ D) CHANGES TO THE CUPS INTERFACE
list of languages accepted is as follows:
C English (US)
+ ca Catalan
cs Czech
da Danish
de German
@@ -3096,15 +3131,23 @@ D) CHANGES TO THE CUPS INTERFACE
es Spanish
fi Finnish
fr French
+ gl Galician
hu Hungarian
+ it Italian
ja Japanese
nb Norwegian
nl Dutch
pl Polish
pt Portuguese
+ ru Russian
sk Slovak
+ sl Slovenian
sv Swedish
- zh_TW Simplified Chinese
+ tr Turkish
+ uk Ukrainian
+ vi Vietnamese
+ zh_CN Simplified Chinese
+ zh_TW Traditional Chinese
- If -loriginal is passed, the original language of the PPD file
will be honored.