Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven Karafyllakis" 
<steve@s...> wrote:
> 
> I for one need to be able to turn off the bi-directional printing, 
> and writing that in on the .bat file doesn't seem to work. I also 
> want 1440x1440 resolution, and that also doesn't work. 
> 
> Steven Karafyllakis
> 
> 
> > What do you need more?
> > 
> > Qimage + QTR + QTRGUI works perfect, doesn't it?
> > 
> > Or at least so it seems to me.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Hans Van Rafelghem
> > http://www.vanrafelghem.com


I see there's some good discussion about QTR for Windows.

Here's the basic plan as I see it now.

Stephen has done a great job putting on a friendly front end.
So adding all the basic printing capability that the mac has
is in the works.  It's not quite as simple as using the print
dialogs on the mac but its close.  Its mostly a matter of me 
getting more time to move code to the PC and test it out.

A couple details:

1) The directionality will be selectable.  I think unidirectional
is the default now not bi-directional.

2) 1440x1440 is a bit of an unknown.  Epson does not show
this resolution in any of their recommended modes for the
printers already supported.  The Pro printers (4xxx,7xxx,9xxx)
are pretty explicit in not handling 1440x1440.  With the 2200
it might be possible since so much is handled in the driver.
However I'm unsure if there would be any benefit -- 1440x720
already uses the smallest drop size.  Also there's the issue of
doubling the print time.
The other main unknown here is that I don't know if gimp-print
will work at 1440x1440.  There's code for various resolutions
so it might be added but I can't be sure.

3) There's been a fair amount of interest in the R800.  From the
Epson documentation it looks like you can only take advantage
of the smallest 1.5 pl drop size if you go to 2880x1440 or
1440x1440 (this is the first printer I've seen that explicitly
mentions 1440x1440).  So this ties into the above issue too.

4) Roll paper will also supported in the next version.

 Roy