Free printer software for linux

The PosteRazor project cuts a raster image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster.
As input, the PosteRazor takes a raster image.
The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document.
An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps.
PosteRazor is available as a Windows and as an OSX version (it should also be compilable on Linux).
Main features:
- Input image formats.
- Image types.
- Dimension Units.
- Printer page layout.
- Poster size.
- Image tile overlapping.
- PDF output
Enhancements:
- Added: Polish translation by Grzegorz Wacikowski. This translation is included only in the Win32 version
- Added: French translation by Martin Loyer
- Added: +/- Spin buttons for poster size in pages
- Changed: Numbers in input fields are selected instead of changed on mouse drags. Should be more standard conformant.

system-config-printer purpose is to configure a CUPS server (often the local machine) using the CUPS API. The tool is written in Python, using pygtk for the graphical parts and with some Python bindings (pycups) for the CUPS API.
It is largely the same as using the CUPS web interface for configuring printers, but has the advantage of being a native application rather than a web page. It appears in the Fedora menu under System -> Administration -> Printing.
As a result of using the CUPS API the tool is able to configure remote CUPS instances and is not limited to configuring CUPS on the local machine. The CUPS library providing the API uses HTTP and IPP to communicate with the CUPS server.
Enhancements:
- Several improvements for the new-printer wizard have been made, and assorted bugs have been fixed.

Lexmark Z11 printer driver for Linux is a Linux printer driver/filter for the Lexmark Z11 printer, supporting color and b/w printing, variable page size and more.
The driver lz11-V2 is an improvement of the lz11 driver, which was first released in 2002. Additionally to the features of lz11, which include variable page sizes and ink saving, the lz11-V2 version comes with a backward compatibility mode for the filters "cZ11" and "cZ11somsom". While the cZ11 filter is emulated in an improved way, which helps to save ink and takes away the grayish look of color prints, the cZ11somsom emulation only supports the basic properties (as InkType and DitherPPI). Ink weighting is not included, but merely needed, because of a new pixel placement algorithm for black and color ink.
"Highlights" of the lz11-V2 are: further improved printing speed for black ink and a tool to align the skew of the black ink cartridge. A smooth-dithering algorithm for black and color prints was added. The driver comes with an improved set of installation and utility scripts that support automatic installation-option-checking, testpage-printing, black-ink-adjustment, automatic installation of foomatic-xml-files as well as automatic installation of the included PPD files for CUPS and PPR. For backward compatibility reason the GhostScript device emulation (as "hpdj", "epsonc", ...) is still included, but should never be offered on "modern" Linux installations.
The original driver-code "cZ11" was written by Christian Kornblum in 2001 (this code still is the backbone of this filter).
WARNING:This driver is known not to work with the Z31 and Z51. In fact, it is known to hose those printers flash in some circumstances!
Enhancements:
- The installer can be called by ./lz11.install --debug, which will produce BMP files instead of paper prints (for test)
- Now the cups-restart is done also properly for Debian and Gentoo
- An installed Z11 printer-queue (PPD) and its options are updated automatically during installation
- The print-job cancelling is now appropriate for hotplug generated devices. Printer "hick-ups" on a resume are prevented
- The print-job cancelling is shown automatically in an "xterm"
- some smaller bug fixes

MyRSS is a simple RSS feed gatherer and printer. It has an XHTML output and can be displayed and tweaked with CSS. An example output document is available at http://myrss.sourceforge.net/example.html

Stylus Toolbox is a printer utility for Epson Stylus inkjet printers that is designed to replace the Epson Printer Utility that comes with the Epson drivers for the Windows platform on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and other Unix and Unix-like operating systems that are supported by the Python programming language and the Gutenprint inkjet drivers.

This project is a graphical (GUI) front-end for Gutenprints escputil command-line Epson printer utility. As a reult, it supports all printers supported by escputil and Gutenprint, including many recent-model Epson Stylus and Epson Photo printers.

printerpowerd project is a Daemon to automatically turn a printer on and off.

printerpowerd is a little Python script designed for users of older printers who want to save power when not using their printer, without manually turning it on and off.

It runs, checking the printer queue directory every five seconds, turns it on when it sees a job, and turns it off after a configurable amount of idle time.

It allows you to turn a printer on and off (when idle) using X10 or any other abitrary command.

SpliX is a set of CUPS printer drivers for SPL (Samsung Printer Language) printers. If you have a such printer, you need to download and use SpliX. Moreover you will find documentations about this proprietary language.
Note that only SPL2 printers are currently supported! However we are looking for people who have a SPL printer to implement it as soon as possible.
Dont hesitate to leave us a message if necessary.
Enhancements:
- Several bugs have been fixed.
- It can be used with CUPS version 1.2 or later.
- The Makefile has been changed.
- The SRT mode is only available for specific printers.
- Splix on 64-bit architectures now works.
- The last band is now printed.
- Margins have been recalculated.
- New translations for German and Italian have been added.