Re: [Gimp-print-devel] The Truth Behind ESC ( D

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

   From: sh...@al...
   Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:23:05 +0900

   Seriously, though, this makes some sense.  In designing the new printer
   protocols, they simply moved the printer resolution from each individual
   raster transfer to once in the header.  It's a sensible thing to do.

But this still doesn't entirely add up.  The vertical spacing is a
hardware matter -- the jets are exactly such a distance a part, and no
amount of programming will change that.  Unless by programming a
multiple of that you can turn off some of the jets?  But to what end?

It makes more sense in the horizontal direction, where inter-droplet
separation has a certain amount of logic behind it, but even there
it's a hardware matter.  The separations computed from the ESC(D
commands that we've seen don't match up to the print resolution.

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