[Gimp-print-devel] Re: gimp-print3.x escp2 bugs and Stylus Photo ghostscript driver

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

   Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:19:23 +0200
   From: Henryk Buggs Richter <tf...@ck...>

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   Hello Robert,

   I`ve enjoyed using your gimp print plugin in conjunction with
   my Epson Photo 700 for a while.

   Unfortunately most programs only produce PS output and 
   ghostscript`s support for 6 color Epson Injets was weak.

   So I grabbed your escp2 driver and wrote a ghostscript
   wrapper for it. I hope it`s useful for you too and I`d be
   glad if you add it to your web page. I tested it only on
   my Photo 700 with A4 paper by now. The only changes to
   your driver were a different name of the include file
   and bottom=50 for MODEL_IMAGEABLE_PHOTO. I used
   ghostscript V5.99beta as starting point for my work.

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the primary gimp-print 3.2 development goals.  And now
I find somebody's just done did it.  Actually, the print-pcl driver
should receive the same kind of treatment (I'm guessing that it won't
be very hard at all).  I actually want all the smarts in gimp-print to
eventually go away, to be replaced by a thin glue layer between the
Gimp and "the Linux printing system".

Henryk, could you please surf over to
https://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1537, join SourceForge and
the gimp-print project, and put this stuff in the CVS repository
there?  I'm obviously not going to refuse this kind of thing in any
form, but it will probably go in most smoothly if you do it yourself.

   While testing I noticed some bugs in your code. 

   Mode 9 (1440 x 720 DPI Two-pass Microweave) uses
   wrong scaling in the x direction resulting in pictures
   4 times as wide as supposed to be.

Thanks.  I'll take a look at it.  I've been looking at the weaving
code today, and just seeing how broken it is.

   All softweave modes don`t produce printer linefeeds 
   with OUTPUT_GRAY.

Thanks.

   Hoping not annoying you with this 
   large unwanted mail,

Absolutely not.  This is a really big piece of progress.