Re: [Gimp-print-devel] stylus 660, gs 6.01 and ink refill kits

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

   Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:07:56 +0200
   From: Hrafnkell Eiriksson <he...@kv...>

   OK, do you guys have a good contact with Epson? Can you get the
   specs? Should I send someone an email and try asking for them?
   The printer is as far as I know a escp2 printer so it might
   just be a question of getting the correct init string? Or what?
   (The easy software printpro driver for CUPS for the printer has
   the name rastertoescp2)

   Could I find something out by taking the output from the windows
   or printpro driver and try to parse that into escp2 commands?

It's not just a matter of the init string; there are subtleties about
the command set for each printer.  There's a program included with the
plugin called parse-escp2.  You can run that on the output from the
Windows (or PrintPro) driver, and will help us figure out what this
printer really is.  Windows driver would probably be best.

   > Actually, the 640 driver doesn't support 1440 resolution (I thought
   > the printer didn't, but evidently it does, and the driver hasn't been
   > upgraded yet).  So that combination probably won't actually work.

   Ok, but the driver didn't barf on me. Shouldn't it do that?
   The 660 has 1440 resolution.

No, the driver won't actually barf.  It will probably just do the
wrong thing.  The Ghostscript driver doesn't do the error checking
that the rest of the print plugin does.

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