---
name: "ijsgutenprint.5.0"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ijsgutenprint"
version: "5.0.2-4"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/ijsgutenprint.5.0"
---

# ijsgutenprint.5.0(1)

Ghostscript driver for Gutenprint

## NAME

ijsgutenprint - Ghostscript driver for Gutenprint

## SYNOPSIS

**gs** -sDEVICE=ijs -sIjsServer=/usr/bin/ijsgutenprint -sDeviceManufacturer=*vendor* -sDeviceModel=*name* \[ *-dIjsUseOutputFD* \] -sIjsParams=\[ *key1*=*value1*,*keyn*=*valuen*... \] \[ *options* \] \[ *files* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**ijsgutenprint** provides Ghostscript with a Gutenprint driver, supporting all printers supported by libgutenprint.

**NOTE:** ijsgutenprint should never be called directly.  Ghostscript will run it if the IjsServer parameter is set to IjsServer=ijsgutenprint when invoking the IJS driver.

**NOTE:** The only *supported* method of running ijsgutenprint is via Foomatic. Users running ghostscript directly will not be supported.  The driver name used by Foomatic is *gutenprint-ijs.5.0*.

## OPTIONS

*ijsgutenprint* accepts the following Ghostscript IJS options.  The Gutenprint-specific options are not documented here.

- **-dIjsUseOutputFD**

  This option should be specified whenever output from Ghostscript will go to stdout or into a pipe.  It may be specified in all other cases, with only a slight performance degradation.

- **-sIjsParams**=*Option1*=*Value1*,*Option2*=*Value2*

  This parameter contains a single string containing a comma-separated list of sub-options.

- **-sDeviceManufacturer**=*vendor* **-sDeviceModel**=*name*

  This option must be supplied.  There is no default.  The IJS driver requires the *vendor* (it's part of the protocol), but the ijsgutenprint driver ignores it.

## HISTORY

The Ghostscript **stp** driver was originally written by Henryk Richter (buggs@comlab.uni-rostock.de), and was integrated into Gutenprint during the 3.1 development series.  Gutenprint (which was named Gimp-Print prior to release 5.0) itself was originally written by Michael Sweet \<mike@easysw.com\>, who released up to version 2.0; Robert Krawitz released version 3.0.  The Gutenprint development team (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net) now maintains the entire package.

The IJS driver was originally written by Russell Lang, and incorporated into Gutenprint (known then as Gimp-Print) in early 2002.  This driver corresponds with the IJS protocol 0.32.

The **stp** driver is no longer supported as of Gutenprint 5.0.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright ©  2001-2006 Robert Krawitz (rlk@alum.mit.edu)

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

## AUTHORS

Robert Krawitz.  Originally written by Russell Lang.

This manual page was written by Robert Krawitz (rlk@alum.mit.edu) and Roger Leigh (rleigh@debian.org).

## SEE ALSO

[**gs**(1)](/gs/1.md)