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[Bug 276905] Upgrade gutenprint to version 5.1.1
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 02:18:10 -0600 (MDT)
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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276905
------- Comment #3 from kssingvo@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-06-04 02:18 MST -------
As said before: I don't to want to have any unstable and half-baken drivers in
our distribution.
And as a result, the development version of gutenprint was updated on Saturday
(2007-JUN-02 / new version: 5.1.2). Some major bugs got fixed. Your suggestion
was doubtful.
Yes, I'm reading software announcements of all printer projects which our
distribution already contains.
Cite of the Changes of 5.1.2:
Changes: This release fixes a number of problems in 5.1.1 including new
Epson printers not printing black, the Postscript driver always printing
grayscale, printing CDs correctly in all cases on Epson printers, and
borderless printing working correctly on a number of Epson multi-function
devices. In addition, Epson printers using Claria ink have been retuned
for improved quality.
If customers are unhappy with support of Epson printers, please lets first
start discussing who is ignoring the OpenSource world: Epson or SuSE.
As a counter-example have a look at HP and their hplip (hpinket) project at
SourceForge: nearly all of their printers are support by it. This excellent
support of their own printers is done by HP itself since many, many years.
So HP showed that it is possible to provide (real) OpenSource drivers by the
vendor himself. Epson (and others) instead are showing an ongoing ignorance of
the OpenSource world. And as HP is working together with the distributions,
they are in the OpenSource world many steps ahead before other vendors.
I would suggest to rethink about the current situation: about which vendors are
supporting OpenSource and which are not.
And then let all the printers vendors show by your money (buying behavior) if
you want to get OpenSource drivers or not.
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------- Comment #3 from kssingvo@xxxxxxxxxx 2007-06-04 02:18 MST -------
As said before: I don't to want to have any unstable and half-baken drivers in
our distribution.
And as a result, the development version of gutenprint was updated on Saturday
(2007-JUN-02 / new version: 5.1.2). Some major bugs got fixed. Your suggestion
was doubtful.
Yes, I'm reading software announcements of all printer projects which our
distribution already contains.
Cite of the Changes of 5.1.2:
Changes: This release fixes a number of problems in 5.1.1 including new
Epson printers not printing black, the Postscript driver always printing
grayscale, printing CDs correctly in all cases on Epson printers, and
borderless printing working correctly on a number of Epson multi-function
devices. In addition, Epson printers using Claria ink have been retuned
for improved quality.
If customers are unhappy with support of Epson printers, please lets first
start discussing who is ignoring the OpenSource world: Epson or SuSE.
As a counter-example have a look at HP and their hplip (hpinket) project at
SourceForge: nearly all of their printers are support by it. This excellent
support of their own printers is done by HP itself since many, many years.
So HP showed that it is possible to provide (real) OpenSource drivers by the
vendor himself. Epson (and others) instead are showing an ongoing ignorance of
the OpenSource world. And as HP is working together with the distributions,
they are in the OpenSource world many steps ahead before other vendors.
I would suggest to rethink about the current situation: about which vendors are
supporting OpenSource and which are not.
And then let all the printers vendors show by your money (buying behavior) if
you want to get OpenSource drivers or not.
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