Installing more printer support with guten-print 5.0.0 final package!

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First a little about the drivers

These drivers are high quality drivers for Canon, Epson, Lexmark, Sony, Olympus, and PCL printers for use with Ghostscript, CUPS, Foomatic, and the Gimp.

Gutenprint was formerly called Gimp-Print.

Info about guten-print and supported printers list can be found at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net

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Installation

Open launch run programs type konsole. In the konsole type, 

                sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends cupsys-driver-gimpprint

This will remove the current gimp-print drivers which we will now be replacing with new ones of the same plus more.

Now remove one more part of cups by typing, 

               sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends cupsys-driver-gimpprint-data

Once that is successful, download this this file to the desktop.

In the terminal window you have open from the last command or a new one type cd Desktop once on desktop type, 

               sudo dpkg -i guten*.deb

Once it installs fine you need to restart cups so to do that type, 

               /etc/init.d/cupsys restart.

Once that is complete you should be able to open the printer control panel and go through the wizard and install your printer fine.

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