Re: [Gimp-print-devel] First experiences with an 870

[Charles Briscoe-S. <cp...@de...>]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 09:47:44PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    Hmm.  The reason I was studying the weave code was because I was going
>    to try to modify the weave pattern to make it print closer to the edges
>    of the paper.  Since you've already done this, though, there's little
>    reason for me to work on it too.  ;)
> 
> Other than the fact that the quality sucks at the top and bottom of
> the page?  We do eventually hae to fix that.

Yes.  I'll look at it again when I have the time.  (I'm putting together
an Exif decoder at the moment...  I want to be able to pick thumbnails
and timestamps out of camera-generated image headers.  There might also
be some colour correction stuff in there too.)

> Likewise here.  I wish we only had to support the 870 :-)

;)

> Epson printers don't clip.  If you give it something wider than what
> the printer can physically do, it will simply error out (or maybe the
> print head will fly off the end of the printer and spill ink all over
> your 1000 year old Persian rug).  If you give it something wider than
> the paper, it will blithely dump ink all over the innards of the
> printer.  Messy.

There's another way to do that.  You've probably noticed that if you turn
the printer off while it still has paper in it, it'll eject the paper.
Apparently, though, (at least with a Photo 700) when you turn it on again,
it'll think it still has paper in the print path and will, if asked,
print a whole page onto the platten.

> I've added you.

Thanks.  To start off, I'll try to commit my "cancel" patch sometime this
weekend.  Hopefully without committing all my other random hacks too. ;)

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