[Gimp-print-devel] Re: Stylus Color - the old beast again... ;-)

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

   From: Dirk Ritter <di...@gn...>
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   Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 03:22:46 +0100 (CET)

Please send this stuff to the list, not to me personally.

   Hello Robert L Krawitz!

   I compiled and installed gimp-1.2 recently and tonight
   I installed gimp-print-4.1.5. The good news - the
   microweave stuff seems to work like a charm now and
   selecting some inkjet paper in order to get the density
   right on plain paper is no longer required.
    The bad news - now that you changed the softweave stuff
   it does no longer print on my printer - it just causes
   the printer to load a page, the paper transport then
   moves the paper further, stops briefly at some points
   and finally ejects the paper. The printer repeats this
   procedure until it runs out of paper, luckily, nothing
   at all gets printed.
    Well - 4.1.3 used to "print" something vaguely resembling
   the image you intended to print but now it could cause
   trouble for the unwary user, so maybe you should disable
   the softweave feature for the time being.

There's probably no really good reason to enable softweave on the
original Stylus Color.  I just don't remember what we did between
4.1.3 and 4.1.5 in that regad.

   Another good thing - just after I discovered the margin
   setting and thought the problem was solved I found out
   by accident that the printer still starts to print a
   small distance away from the paper, provided you feed
   an image of the right dimensions. Now this seems to be
   fixed as well - I tested it again with said image on
   the new release and now printing starts where it should,
   i.e. at the paper, so I guess the problem now got solved
   for once and for all. [smile]

   Meanwhile I unsubscribed from the mailing list, so
   if you ever do anything about the code for old printers
   just let me know and I will test it on my old beast.
   On the other hand - microweave at 360 dpi is fast enough
   and Microweave at 720 dpi produces really good results,
   so maybe it's not worth the effort to make softweave
   work on that printer. [sigh]

I can't possibly remember everyone who has every printer.  Please at
least monitor the releases and check the release notes periodically.

   (I am not complaining - I already got far more than I
    paid for.) ;-)

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