Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Re: Yet Another Merge

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

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:33:38AM +0000, Jean-Marc Verbavatz wrote:
> 
> > Roll paper and very long prints are two different issues.  Very long,
> > narrow prints are going to be hard to represent on the preview
> > window.  Roll paper is something else; we need to understand a little
> > better how Epson handles that.
> 
> I didn't realize that was a major issue. Couldn't one consider roll paper as
> endless paper ? Do you really need a bottom margin before you start
> printing ? Of course you do with full page layout programs like ghostscript and
> probably gimp-print as well. But one could imagine a mode where you would
> simply feed the printer continuously with separate prints until the user says
> stop or something. Isn't that what Epson does (I haven't tried it) ?

I think the issue is that the printer normally ejects the sheet after
printing a page.  With roll paper, that would not be a good idea.
Look in the 870's reference manual for roll mode (on one of the CDs in
HTML, IIRC).  That gives some idea what's going on.

I have some roll-mode printfiles sitting in a directory somewhere that I
want to analyse when I get time (I made them when I had Win95 installed
briefly on the laptop a month or two ago).  There's also a roll-mode
zero-margin one there; that might be interesting too.  You've probably
noticed the little white pads in the printer just at the left margins and
89 and 100mm to the right...  That's the two widths that Epson do their
newer roll paper in.  Hmm.  There's a cutout at around 210mm/8.5in which
might allow zero-margin printing on A4/Letter paper too.  Something to
think about.

Cheers,

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