Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson C8500 (A3 color laser) with Gimp-print

[Till K. <til...@gm...>]

This GIMP-Print support is only support of the printer's PCL-5e 
emulation. You will get only black and white printouts in up to 600 dpi 
with it. For full support you have to use Epson's driver:

    http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=alc8500

which is the recommended one for this printer.

In the next release of ESP GhostScript (7.05.4) this driver will be 
included.

    Till


Hubert Tonneau wrote:
> I'd like to know why the C8500 Epson laser printer is listed to work with
> Gimp-print whereas you don't list it in Gimp-print support:
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-AcuLaser_C8500
> 
> Do you have informations about how nicely it works with Gimp-print,
> and using which Gimp-print driver ?
> 
> Anyway, I'm cc-ing Gimp-print devel mailing list because I think that supporting
> one fast (so laser instead od ink-jet) A3 color printer is important to meet some
> high end speed needs.
> 
> Most of the laser printers will support PostScript as a fallback solution, but
> PostScript is really the worse solution if you expect to send a high resolution
> bitmap.
> Also what I don't know is could a laser printer work on the fly using a line
> by line protocol like Gimp-print is, or is it impossible to imagine that due
> to the laser beeing unable to wait for datas in the middle.
> 
> While I'm with maybe off topic questions, HP 9xx inkjet can do reverse printing,
> so it might worse including an API in Gimp-print that enables to say:
> . this is the first page of a two faces printing
> . this is the second page of a two faces printing
> leting  the print driver send the correct printer command sequence and
> assuming that the software driving Gimp-print did the correct flip for
> the second face.
> While you are at it, maybe the correct flip to do on a given model should be
> available in the printers.xml file.