From: Mark H. <ha...@us...> - 2001-10-09 03:08:29
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> Till Kamppeter wrote: > > > Perhaps you should either try the "Epson 9-Pin" or "Epson 24-Pin" > > drivers of CUPS (www.cups.org) or the IBM Omni drivers > > (http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/omni/). They > > are perhaps both better than the stock GhostScript drivers. Foomatic > > data for the Omni driver is under development by the IBM people (the > > driver package contains an experimental Foomatic generator, the > > resulting files need some tweaking). > > Does anyone know offhand how similar the language used by these impact > printers is to the ESCP/2 raster used by Epson inkjets? In other words, > how hard would it be for Gimp-print to support these printers? ESC/P looks nothing like ESCP/2 in terms of raster format but it is not that hard to implement support for it. You can use the omni code as a guide. I can also answer any questions... Mark Take a look at the Linux Omni printer driver at http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/projects/omni/ |