 <bookinfo>
  <title>The User's Guide to the Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer Drivers</title>
  <date>April 2, 2002</date>
  <pubdate>April 2, 2002</pubdate>
  <author>
    <firstname>Andy</firstname>
    <surname>Stewart</surname>
  </author>
  <copyright>
    <year>2002</year>
    <holder>Andy Stewart</holder>
  </copyright>
  <legalnotice>
    <para>The User's Guide to the Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer
Drivers, Copyright 2002, Andy Stewart.
    </para>
    <para>
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation with no invariant sections, no Front-Cover texts, and no
Back-Cover texts.  A copy of the license is included in <xref linkend="gfdl">.
    </para>

  </legalnotice>

  <abstract>
  <para>
    The Gimp-Print Top Quality Printer Drivers (hereafter
called Gimp-Print) are a set of printer drivers written to
take advantage of the full capabilities of a wide range of
printers. These drivers should work on any POSIX compliant operating
system (e.g. Linux, Solaris, IRIX, etc).  This document will explain how to
use the Gimp-Print software to achieve high quality printouts from the
<ulink url="http://www.gimp.org">GIMP</ulink> (GNU Image
Manipulation Program) and
<ulink url="http://www.cups.org">CUPS</ulink> (Common Unix Printing
System).
  </para>
  <para>
    Please note that in addition to using the Gimp-Print software as a
print plugin for the GIMP, and as a set of printer drivers for CUPS, this
software can also be compiled and used with the 
<ulink url="http://www.ghostscript.com">Ghostscript</ulink> software
and with the 
<ulink
url="http://www.linuxprinting.org/foomatic.html">Foomatic</ulink> 
software.
   </para>
   <para>
Regardless of whether the Gimp-Print software is used with the GIMP,
CUPS, Ghostscript, or Foomatic, the print quality and printer settings
remain the same.  However, use of the Gimp-Print with Ghostscript and
Foomatic is not covered in this document.  These topics may be covered
in a future revision of this document.
  </para>
  <para>
  This document corresponds to version 4.2.0 and later of the Gimp-Print
software. This document will serve as a guide to the user, and as such
will not explain how to install Gimp-Print, CUPS, GIMP, Ghostscript,
Foomatic, or any other related software.
  </para>

  <para>
    Andy Stewart, the author, is the founder of the
<ulink url="http://www.wlug.org">Worcester Linux Users' Group</ulink> in
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.  The group was founded in July 1997 and has
approximately 140 people on its mailing list.  Monthly meetings are
held and all are invited.
  </para>

  <para>
    In terms of "code", this is the author's first contribution to the
open source community, and definitely his first experience with DocBook.
Constructive comments, praise, words of encouragement, and the like
will be most appreciated if e-mailed to the
<ulink url="mailto:andystewart@attbi.com">author</ulink>.
  </para>
  </abstract>
 </bookinfo>
