Re: [Gimp-print-devel] stc740 now understands ESC(U, but ...

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

   From: sh...@al...
   Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:09:44 +0900

   > I have no idea what these things support.  I suggest that we treat
   > them as MODEL_COMMAND_SET1 if they support 1440 and MODEL_COMMAND_SET0
   > if they don't.  Anyone have any better suggestions?

   Well, there are a lot of commands and a lot of models, but the product of
   these two is not absurdly large.

Actually, that's precisely the problem: the matrix was getting
absurdly large (it used to be all special cases of this kind), and
there were too many special cases.  There are about 15 distinct
printer models that are operationally different in some way, and about
10 commands.  That matrix is a bit too big for comfort already, and
there are only going to be more printers in the future.  Not all of
the distinct printer models differ by command set, either; some of
them (like the 700 and EX) just differ on paper size.

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