[Gimp-print-devel] Re: Printing

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

   Cc: gim...@so...
   From: Miguel de Icaza <mi...@he...>
   Date: 04 Apr 2000 21:44:01 -0400

   > I noticed in your Slashdot interview that you said that one of GNOME's
   > greatest needs is for more printer drivers for gnome-print.  Well, in
   > the gimp-print project (the Gimp Print plugin, which a group of us
   > have split off as its own separate project from the Gimp) we have a
   > fair number of print drivers, mostly for Epson but also some HP and
   > Canon printers.  We also have a dithering engine that works fairly
   > well that supports all this stuff.

   That sounds slick!  So time to merge those printers I would say.

   Basically gnome-print has a postscript imaging model, and we can
   provide the drivers with an RGB buffer to dump into the printer.  So
   my guess is that we want to do this

We already have one driver (for all the Epson printers that we
otherwise support) that can be built as a Ghostscript driver.  There's
no particular reason the others couldn't be, it's just that nobody's
done them yet.  The basic driver model is such that it should be
fairly easy to plug into most any kind of raster image source.
Currently we support RGB/A, K/A, and a few indexed options; adding
others (such as 12 or 16 bit RGB, for example) is just a matter of
writing the appropriate lookup functions.

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