Re: [Gimp-print-devel] ESP 750 MODEL_INIT

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

   From: sh...@al...
   Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 21:32:04 -0400

   Since this string does appear in the Windows driver ouptut, it seems
   that the Epson engineers felt the need to include it in every print
   job rather than having it sent as Windows configures its USB devices
   at boot/insertion.  They apparently didn't think it was such a bad thing
   to do.  I'm inclined to agree.  It's just a few bytes and it guarentees
   that the device will work.  I don't know why the printer has the behavior
   of not listening to jobs from the USB port without that string anyway.

Well, there's no real harm in taking the belt and suspenders
approach.  I agree that sending this string with the print job is
somewhat lame, but it's also safe, and doesn't require the user to
know about this hack.  The more stuff the user has to configure, the
more likely that things will go wrong.  Sending the init string with
the print job is apparently foolproof.

   And why would you want two different queues going to the same printer?

As a really ugly hack, to have two computers share one printer without
setting up a proper lpd configuration.  No, I don't want to think
about the implications of this.  It's too ugly.