[Gimp-print-devel] Wow!

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Wow!

For the past week or so I've been trying to figure out how to improve support
for my ESP 750 under Linux.  I've been exchanging mail on this topic with
Dale Pontius (Author of Stylus Color 740 uniprint drivers), who referred
me to Michael Sweet (who you know, and who gave me some helpful info), and
I've also independently contacted L. Peter Deutsch (gh...@al..., in
charge of ghostscript) who referred me to Uli Wortmann, Gunther Hess, and
Martin Lottermoser (all three of whom I have exchanged mail with) as active
inkjet printer driver developers.  And through all of that exchange, I
hadn't heard a word about your work.

However, not 10 minutes ago, I was chatting with a colleague I work with
about this and out of the blue he mentions this project.  All I can say is,
wow!

Anyway, I am *very* interested in what you're doing right now.  I haven't
yet had time to review the details of what you have accomplished.  I just
wanted to get this message off immediately before reading the code.

Let's see, I'm supposed to "send a short message to the list introducing
yourself and your interest in improving the Gimp's printing capabilities".

Name:  Eric Sharkey
Oxygen Consumption Experience : 26 years
Computer Programming Experience: 18 years
C Programming Experience: 6 years
Linux Experience: 4.5 years
ESP 750 Experience: 4 months
Current Occupation: High Energy Physics PhD Student (5th year)

My primary interest is not particularly related to the Gimp.  I originally
wanted to get 6-color printing support in Ghostscript.  I've done some reviews
of the code and it seems that this will require a bit of work, but isn't
impossible.  However I've really just begun and I haven't produced any
code yet.  I'm very interested to see what work I can do to integrate what
you have done into ghostscript.  I want to work with Gunther Hess' Uniprint
driver, which is quite flexible by design and already interacts well with
the ESC740.

I guess that's all I have to say for the moment.  I look forward to reading
your code.

Eric