https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=276905 ------- Comment #3 from kssingvo@novell.com 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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.