Re: [Gimp-print-devel] 'commandtoepson' revamping?

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

On 9/16/21 8:43 AM, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> I'd like to change 'commandtoepson' to work the way CUPS expects, and 
> add the filter to the PPD so CUPS can invoke it automatically, but this 
> would require an implementation change so that it doesn't trigger a 
> print.
> 
> This would be broadly applicable to any printer escputil can work with, 
> so it probably makes sense to enable it across the board for the entire 
> escp2 family (perhaps with a blacklist) rather than only enabling it for 
> specific models.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> (The dyesub backend acually implements this command filter functionality 
>  already, but I never did hook it up to the PPDs)

This is going to need some pretty thorough testing.  Unfortunately, I don't have many old printers
any more, so there's going to need to be some kind of graceful failure.