Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Support for Olivetti inkjet printers

[Raffaele T. <raf...@gm...>]

Thank you Robert. Do you mean that it would be difficult for me to
reverse-engineer it as there is no standard (or set of standards) commonly
used to find, or at least start from?

I would be willing to try this myself, but there seems to be little or no
documentation on reverse-engineering inkjets, and to make things worse
their drivers do not work on modern macOS and Windows machines

Il sab 23 mag 2020, 17:38 Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> ha scritto:

> On 5/23/20 10:49 AM, Raffaele Tranquillini wrote:
> > Dear GIMP-Print developers,
> >
> > I have been using your drivers for years on Linux, and had a great
> experience with them.
> > Unfortunately a printer I own (Olivetti MY_WAY) seems to be completely
> unsupported, but thankfully I
> > could get the PPD files from an old OS X driver and they look very
> simple at a first glance.
> >
> > This is the exact model I own, from a family of probably very similar
> printers driver-wise:
> >
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070420013344/http://www.olivetti.com/Site/Public/product.asp?sid=&cid=255&iid=440
> >
> > And this is the Mac OS PPD file of my model, re-uploaded by myself:
> >
> https://gitlab.com/cunidev/olivetti-my-way-linux/-/blob/master/ppd-osx-driver/olmw.ppd
> >
> > As I have zero experience with writing printer drivers at the moment,
> could you tell me how
> > difficult it would be for this printer (which means probably its whole
> family) to become supported,
> > according to its specs/PPD etc., and, in case you believe it would be
> possible with reasonable
> > effort, if there is anything like a porting guide for new devices I
> could start from?
>
> Hi,
>
> Unfortunately, we have no information on the language used by this
> printer, so we're not able to
> write a driver for it.  Supporting it would require reverse engineering
> the printer language, and
> without sustained hands-on access to the printer, that's not going to be
> feasible.
>
> The PPD file simply describes the options available on the printer, not
> the language used by the
> printer.  It specifies a driver to use (the MY_WAY plugin) that does all
> the translation needed for
> the printer to function.
>
>
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