Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Missing Paper Size on Ricoh Africo MP C2500

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

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:46:42 +0100, Steve Merkelbach wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 08:36 -0500, Robert Krawitz wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 09:06:46 +0100, Steve Merkelbach wrote:
>> > Good Morning,
>> > 
>> > currently we working with the copy station "ricoh africo mp c2500" and
>> > a up-to-date manjaro linux at our company.
>> > 
>> > We run into some unsolvable problems regarding the standard pcl drivers
>> > and where able to solve them by switching to your gutenprint drivers.
>> > 
>> > But there is one big problem with the driver. It has no option to
>> > choose "DIN A6" as paper size. We urgently need this because of our dpd
>> > label prints.
>> > 
>> > Is it possible to add the paper size to the drivers?
>> > I tried it myself and added the required lines to the ppd but it did
>> > not worked :)
>> > I've never changed a ppd file and I'm sure I made mistakes.
>> > 
>> > Could you send me the correct lines for the ppd or updated driver
>> > please?
>> 
>> You should be able to select Custom paper size and input the actual
>> size of this page -- can you check that, please?
>
> Good Morning,
>
> I tried it with the manual paper size but I can't find the input/ the
> settings for the manual size.
>
> In addition to the missing paper size there is no option for the paper/
> media type like plain paper or thick paper with your driver pack.
> We need this settings because the pre heating process is important
> while printing labels etc.
>
> Yesterday I ordered the postscript module for our copy station to be
> able to switch everything to the postscript drivers.
>
> Thank you for your help but I think we will not be abled to use your
> drivers without the missing settings of the default pcl/ps drivers.

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