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@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@ -Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.12-pre4, a pre-release of Gutenprint -5.2.12. Please read these release notes carefully. +Welcome to Gutenprint 5.2.12, 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 2500 printer models. -These drivers provide high quality printing for UNIX, Linux, and -Macintosh OS X (10.6 and above) systems. Gutenprint includes a CUPS -driver, and an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP that replaces the print -plug-in packaged with the GIMP distribution. +Gutenprint is a suite of printer drivers for UNIX, Linux, and +Macintosh OS X systems (10.6 and above) that use CUPS as their +printing system. Gutenprint currently supports over 2600 printers. +It also includes an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP that replaces the +print plug-in packaged with the GIMP distribution. As of 5.2.10, Gutenprint no longer supports Macintosh OS X 10.4 or earlier; as of 5.2.11, Gutenprint no longer supports Macintosh OS X @@ -260,30 +258,37 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES Canon SELPHY CP1000 Canon SELPHY CP1200 Fujifilm ASK-300 [*2] [experimental] + Mitsubishi CP-9500DW [experimental] Mitsubishi CP-9600DW Mitsubishi CP-9800DW [experimental] Mitsubishi CP-9800DW-S [experimental] Mitsubishi CP-D90DW [experimental] DNP DS-RX1HS + DNP DS820/DS820A + Kodak Professional 8800 [experimental] 3) Improved support (and bugfixes) for the following dye sublimation printers: + Canon SELPHY CP820 [*3] + Canon SELPHY CP910 Ciaat Brava 21 [*1] Citizen CW-02 [experimental] - DNP DS620 + DNP DS620/DS620A DNP DS40 DNP DS80 DNP RX1 DNP DS80DX [experimental] Kodak 305 [*2] Kodak 6850 + Kodak 8500 [experimental] + Kodak 9810 [experimental] Mitsubishi CP-9550DW Mitsubishi CP-9550DW-S Mitsubishi CP-9810DW [experimental] - Mitsubishi CP-D70DW [*2] [experimental] + Mitsubishi CP-D70DW [*2] Mitsubishi CP-D707DW [*2] [experimental] - Mitsubishi CP-D80DW [*2] [experimental] + Mitsubishi CP-D80DW [*2] Mitsubishi CP-K60DW-S [*2] Sinfonia S1245/CE [experimental] Sinfonia S2145/CS @@ -311,12 +316,12 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES Note that without the library, the printer will function but the output image quality will be quite poor. - [*2] Optimal quality requires use of an external image processing - library. Only one option is available: + [*2] Printing requires use of an external image processing library. + Only one option is available: * libMitsuD70ImageReProcess -- A reverse-engineered implementation of the Mitsubishi algorithms, relased under the terms of the GNU - GPLv3+. Mitsubishi foes not support this in any way. + GPLv3+. Mitsubishi does not support this in any way. Unfortunately, at this time it cannot be bundled with Gutenprint. The backend will attempt to dynamically load the library at @@ -327,11 +332,14 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES successfully print. Work is underway on a crude fallback that will at least generate (very poor quality) output. + [*3] The USB PID for the CP820 is unknown at this time, + so will not be claimed by the improved backend. + 4) Dye-sublimation backend now reports media status via standard CUPS marker attributes. This applies to all models except for: - Kodak 805 - Kodak 1400 + Kodak 805 and 1400 + Sony UP-DR150, UP-DR200, and UP-SL10 5) Added support for the following Epson inkjet printers: @@ -406,6 +414,16 @@ III) MAJOR CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES Canon MB5000 Canon MB5300 + 10) Removed support for the following laser printer, as on further + investigation we have determined that it cannot be supported: + + Brother HL-1430 + + 11) Added support for the following thermal transfer printer: + + Mitsubishi P95DW + + * Changes from 5.2.10 1) Added support for the following dye sublimation printers: |