Sytem Requirements:
Before installation, it is important that the "Qt 5.15" library is installed. Version 5.15 should be installable on all Linux distributions from 2021 onwards via their respective package repositories.
As this is a very early beta version, the functionality may change before the final version is released, and of course, the beta version may contain bugs.
I've been using the beta version for a bit over a week, and haven't noticed any issue with my regular workflow (edit in darktable => start print from darktable's print view => adjust additional settings in TurboPrint dialog).
I like that the updated UI feels a bit more at home on my KDE desktop!
A few small issues I've noticed so far:
The "Toolbox" dialog does not allow checking ink levels anymore.
The font size for the settings text (page size, media type, ...) in the TurboPrint Monitor "Info" tab is very large.
In "TurboPrint Config", the text in the combo-boxes is very close to the left edge of the box.
Text in KDE6 applet is cut-off and difficult to read.
I haven't used the new Composer and Gimp-3 plugin yet.
Hello and thank you for your feedback. We will investigate the reported issues and fix them as far as possible.
The problem "text in combo-boxes is very close to the left edge of the box" has already been observed and seems to be related to the KDE theme, it is not certain that we can fix it from our side.
- fixed problem with too many copies being printed
- fixed problem when loading tiled TIFFs into TurboPrint Composer
- fixed potential crash when printing PDF documents directly from TurboPrint Composer
- complete user manuals for TurboPrint 3 in English and German
- help buttons show user manual at corresponding page
- smaller font size for print settings list in TurboPrint Monitor (as requested)
- implemented function "create log file archive" in TurboPrint Control
- and many smaller fixes
- Gimp 3.2 plugin path added
- Composer: new menu Settings -> Set screen ICC profile to select monitor color profile
- softproof not always updated; fixed
Changes in Beta 8
- Composer: a display color profile can be selected (Menu "Settings" -> "Select Display Color Profile")
- Composer: size edit fields were cut off when window too small; fixed
- bad visibility of texts and icons in Dark Mode fixed
- TurboPrint Monitor showed no information for print jobs created in the Composer
- Spanish and French user interface localization
To be implemented
- Invoking the Composer from the command line to directly load files
- show ink levels in TurboPrint Control -> Toolbox (TurboPrint Monitor can be used instead)
- complete translations
Just downloaded the latest (beta5) and installed it on Ubuntu 24.04.
Seems pretty good.
A few things I noted:
1. Tried changing the browser for help to Opera (it's what I usually use) and it wouldn't load the help page. Worked fine on Firefox, though.
2. Need to repeat this to check, but with GIMP 3.0.6 (appimage), the TurboPrint menu item turned up under the File menu as expected. But, when I got rid of that and used the 3.2.4 appimage, it didn't.
3. The composer standalone works fine - might be the best way to use it. I guess, gets away from aiming at the moving target that is GIMP. But from GIMP, I noticed when I loaded and XCF image (in 3.0.6) and transferred it to TurboPrint it appeared to transfer it as a PNG (same thing didn't happen with JPGs), and not only that, the initial print size wasn't what I was expecting (too small). I also wondered if there was any loss of quality by transferring it as a PNG?
4. Small thing, but got the feeling some UI text was truncated at the bottom right of the preview pane.
1. When will V3 with the composer be on sale?
2. If further away than the trial period (30 days, I think) as seems likely, will the beta versions keep working with full functionality (ie no watermarks etc) to cover the gap?
3. I am in the process of moving lock, stock and barrel from Windows to (Ubuntu 24.04) Linux. At the moment I have a test installation of Ubuntu running, but, when I finally make the change (probably to 26.04), that will get wiped entirely and a new installation created. So, my question is this: if I purchase TurboPrint while I'm still running the test installation, will I be able to move the same licence to the real version once I make the change?
Update to comment 2 in my post on 9/5/26 @ 6:17PM:
2. Need to repeat this to check, but with GIMP 3.0.6 (appimage), the TurboPrint menu item turned up under the File menu as expected. But, when I got rid of that and used the 3.2.4 appimage, it didn't.
Got it going with 3.2.4 (or the menu item turns up, anyway, and it does fire up the composer) by copying the TurboPrint plugin tree from
and then setting the .py file to be executable. Oddly, GIMP managed to automatically copy two plugins of mine from 3.0 to 3.2 (though it didn't make them executable), but it didn't copy the TurboPrint one.
Hello, thank you for your feedback. We will update the installer to recognize GIMP plugin directories with a higher version number.
Regarding your questions:
- no release date for TurboPrint 3 has been fixed yet
- the current beta version will run for 30 days and with a valid TurboPrint license key it will run until end of July, 2026
- we will provide a new beta version in time
- if you purchase a TurboPrint 2.x license key with the option "2 years free updates", it will work also for the release version TurboPrint 3
Thanks for your reply, there were also one or two other minor points in the post dated 'Sat May 09, 2026 5:17 pm' that you may have missed. The bit about missing text is in the image below, I got the feeling there might have been something beyond 'incl' to turn on an off aspect ratio size linking?
My other question was about transferring a licence. If I buy and install a licence to an (test) installation. Then wipe that installation and reinstall to the final real installation, can the licence be transferred, or does it have to be repurchased?
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Hello, thank you for reminding us of the problem that the width/height boxes & labels may be cut off, it is now on the list of issues to be fixed.
The license can be transferred from the beta to the final version. It can also be transferred from one computer to another by first uninstalling on the old system, then activating the same license keyfile again on the new computer.
Hello, the current beta8 should fix most of the problems you found
- plugin path for GIMP 3.2 now supported
- fixed the problem that the TurboPrint Composer numerical print size fields were cut off when the window was too small
PNG is used by the TurboPrint GIMP plugin to send files to the TurboPrint Composer via hotfolder. PNG is lossless and supports 16bit per chanel, so there is no loss of quality.
Still to be investigated / fixed
- using Opera as help browser
- first image sent by GIMP plugin always full size
I’m on Fedora 44 and, while the drivers function great, getting them installed and set up was a bit of a pain because the prompt for authentication(presumably for sudo access) didn’t work. I ended up having to manually run the installer with sudo and could only setup my printer settings through the cli, since the gui used the same method of trying to get admin access.
I am a little confused on buying a license and timing. I understand that, right now, that license comes with 6 months of updates. If I buy that and apply it to the beta and, for whatever reason, the full release takes more than that 6 months, what happens? Would I need to move back down to the 2.5x release, be stuck permanently on the beta or something else?
