Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Support for the epson Sc-P900

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 03:38:35PM -0500, defy-rocker-giggly--- via Gimp-print-devel wrote:
> I was wondering what is the state of development of gutenprint, (still
> active or not). I have a sc-P900 epson printer, and I would be glad to be
> able to use it with gutenprint. Do you think it is worth trying ? I have a
> spectrophotometer probe, some knowledge about programming. Let met know !

....Try it and see?   Start with the P800 and go from there.

The main differences are a new ink set and support for a higher 
resolution mode.

If that appears to mostly work, then you'll need to create a set of XML 
data files for the inkset and underlying model, this commit (for the 
SL-D700) shows what's needed:

  597efe256b6e0ea8ffc48d780371cd67983a4e4c

That said, Epson claims this model supports AirPrint (ie Driverless/IPP 
Everywhere) so that will probably yield much better results than 
Gutenprint in the short-to-medium term.  

Longer term, Gutenprint's output will get better, but that requires you 
to be willing to go through the effort and expense (ie ink+paper) of 
carefully tuning all the knobs.

 - Solomon
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