Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson Stylus 660

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

   Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:37:39 +0100
   From: Hrafnkell Eiriksson <he...@kv...>

   I have just bought a Epson Stylus Color 660. I just installed
   v3.1.1 of the gimp-print plugin. I see that the Stylus 660
   is not listed in the setup for supported printers.

Try the 640 driver.

   Btw. I know that you guys are trying to improve the dithering code.
   I just did a quick search for articles on error diffusion and inkjet
   printing in the online article database at my university. I found
   an article called "Error diffusion with ink reduction for high
   quality and high resolution ink jet printing" by Joseph Shu at
   Epson Palo Alto Labs. Have you seen it? It appeared in the proceedings of
   IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 1995.

Thanks!  I haven't seen that.

   PS: Is the patent situation with dithering algorithms complicated?

I have no idea.  I've read in a number of places that people who
aren't patent lawyers should *not* attempt to do patent searches or
read patents (in the US, at any rate).  As best as I can retell, if
you've read a patent and you get asked to cease and desist, you are
assumed to be unable to determine if you're in violation or not, and
must assume that you are (only a patent lawyer is deemed competent to
determine if you've violated it).  If you haven't read it, things are
a bit different.  It was really bizarre.

I've heard from other sources, though, that people who aren't patent
lawyers who might get into patent disputes should not read patents.

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