[Gimp-print-devel] Epson 640 questions

[Jim M. <ji...@ic...>]

Recently tried out support for the 640 in gimp-print 3.1.2 and I have
some observations/questions:

- I wasn't getting the chance to enter a print command in the dialog.
It seems that the program is using "lpc status" to get printers and
expects lines like:
printer1:
instead of lprng's 
printer1@dodo
After patching print.c I was able to print directly to the printer.  

- The 640 driver doesn't show the 1440dpi entries, (it has
MODEL_1440DPI_NO in the definition)  Is this just because it is not
figured out yet?  I tried recompiling with MODEL_1440DPI_YES but the
1440 ones don't work. 

- For the 720dpi the 720dpi-Microweave works and gives reasonable
output.  The 720-High Quality and 720-Highest Quality do not work -
they just continually form-feed paper on the printer.

- Are the entries for Media Type/Source suppose to be disabled?

Lastly but maybe should have been first:

- Are there archives of this list somewhere in a form where you can
read through them quickly?  The archives at www.geocrawler.com are a
bit clumsy to use. (no next/prev links)  One big mbox would be ideal.

Thanks, and I look forward to helping out with the driver.  I'm tired
of rebooting (or vmware'ing) to windows just to get descent printer
output.  

Jim


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