Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Tests with Stylus 640

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

   Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 21:09:11 -0500
   From: Karl Heinz Kremer <kh...@kh...>

   Your results are almost identical to what I've found with the 740.=20
   The only exception is that I can print in microweave mode, but=20
   here again the grainy-ness is higher than with the windows
   driver.=20

The graininess is due to the dither algorithm.  People who want to
experiment with different dither algorithms are welcome to.  Just be
aware that good dithering isn't easy.

As for the 740 and other new printers, I think someone with one of
these printers is going to have to pick up the slack.  The turnaround
time between my trying something, somebody else not getting it to
work, and getting the news shuffled around is entirely too long.

I am going to make one more change, and stop right there.  The Windows
printout from the 750 that someone gave me had a completely
undocumented ESC(D command.  Actually, he gave me two different
printouts, one at 720 and one at 1440, printed at different parts of
the page, and the ESC(D commands were identical.  I will put these in,
and commit the result.  Then I plan to keep my hands off this stuff
for now, since I'm not getting anywhere with it.  I'm happy to discuss
it and offer ideas, but it's simply too hard for me to do this by
remote.

(Of course, if someone wants to buy me :-) or even loan me a 750 I can
probably get it working in fairly short order, and then tune it...)

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