Re: [Gimp-print-devel] SELPHY ES2 (dyesub) tested sucessfully!

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 10:34:40PM -0400, Robert Krawitz wrote:
> It sounds like this needs to be a back end, since it needs
> bidirectional communication with the printer.  But I'm not sure how we
> distribute a back end that must be used with a given printer.  Also,
> if the printer's connected over a network to a print server appliance,
> this won't work.

Yeah; this greatly complicates things since sending the data before the 
printer signals that it's ready for it will cause the printer to get 
stuck mid-job or at worst, lock up requiring a power cycle.

I've been wondering how best to integrate this into CUPS too, but it's 
been a rather low priority for me since my little spooler hack works 
well enough for my uses.
 
> Also, the rest of Gutenprint is licensed as GPLv2+, and I want to keep
> everything under a consistent license.  But it looks like this is
> completely your code, so presumably you could do this.

Yes, it's all my code, and I'll be glad to relicense it as needed if it 
is to be integrated into Gutenprint and/or CUPS.

 - Solomon
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