Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Epson 640 questions

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

   Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:05:57 +0200
   From: Jim Mintha <ji...@ic...>

   - 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 Setup button lets you set the printer command.

   - 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. 

The 640 is supposedly not capable of 1440 dpi (although the 660 is).
I can't find the 640 on Epson's web site any more (it's been replaced
by the 660), but I thought I remembered that the 640 is only capable
of 720.  Maybe I'm confusing that with variable dot size.

   - 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.

Try the CVS version.  It was my understanding, though, that the 640
worked in all modes (I think).

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

Yes.  Right now, we don't have anything useful to do with them.  Maybe
in the future.

   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.

Alas, no.

   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.  

We always welcome more help :-)  If you have programming experience,
and would like to fix up the 640 driver, I could add you to the
developer list.  You'll just need to register for an account on
sourceforge.net.

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