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[Omniprint-developer] Re: [Foomatic] Re: draft printing , not readable

[Mark H. <ha...@us...>]

> 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/

[Omniprint-developer] Re: [Foomatic] Re: draft printing , not readable

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

   From: "Mark Hamzy" <ha...@us...>
   Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 22:06:58 -0500

   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...

Thanks.  This sounds like a post 4.2 activity that we might be able to
back port later.

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