Re: [Gimp-print-devel] [printing-driver] Driver development

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:18:31 +0200
   From: Antonio Nevado <an...@ie...>

   I guess I must write a rastertolexmarkz640.c -or so. I've been looking
   at rastertoepson.c and what I'm wondering now is where I can find
   information of the behavior of my device -commands, etc. Would it be
   useful an USB sniffer on Windows?, and, is there another possibility?

The other thing you might do is write a Gutenprint driver.  We already
support a number of Lexmark inkjet printers, so that might give you a
starting point.  Feel free to subscribe to
gim...@li... (which you can do from
sourceforge.net).

You probably don't need an all-out USB sniffer for this purpose; if
you can print to a file from the Windows driver, you can probably get
enough information.

   Antonio Nevado escribió:
   > Hi all:
   >
   > I'd like to get working a Lexmark z640 printer. I'm not experienced at
   > printer driver development so I need some help to get started. At the
   > moment I've installed the CUPS DDK in order to compile an appropriate
   > PPD for it. I started compiling a minimal example .drv and I got a .ppd
   > which I told CUPS to use with the printer. At this point I'd expected to
   > get at least some movement on the printer cartridge or paper and maybe
   > some ink on the paper, but I get nothing at all. CUPS seems to send the
   > data to the USB port and then it believes the job is done.
   >
   > As I'm absolutely newbie I don't know what I'm missing. Maybe someone
   > could give a hint.

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