It works in current CVS of gimp-print! Download the CVS...
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@gimp-print.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gimp-print login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@gimp-print.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/gimp-print co -P print
compile it
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man \
--infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-test --with-ghostscript \
--with-user-guide --with-samples --with-escputil \
--disable-translated-cups-ppds --enable-nls \
--with-readline --enable-lexmarkutil --with-cups \
--enable-cups-ppds --enable-cups-level3-ppds \
--without-foomatic --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu
make
If this fails (it did for me), edit the Makefile, find the line below and remove 'docs' from it.
SUBDIRS = include src samples test po man scripts
rerun make, and make install, and configure cups. YMMV, WFM - if it doens't work for you I'm unlikely to care, please don't email me asking for help