Homebrew PCBs

Andrew wrote:
>>> Adam Seychell wrote:
>>> <SNIP>
>>> Unfortunately all inkjet printers seem to
>>> suffer the same problem. Since its invisible
>>> to the naked eye , printer manufactures are
>>> unlikely to bother improving it. All that is
>>> needed is to slow the print head by 10 times.
>>> You may wait 5 minutes for a printout, but
>>> who cares ?
>>> <SNIP>
> 
>> Russell Shaw wrote:
>>
>> Using a Stylus 460 printer driver on linux
>> (CUPS printing), i've got it on a mode where a
>> 50mm long pcb will take atleast 10 mins to
>> print. The resolution is very high.
> 
> Russell,
> 
> Can you make the printer print from the same
> bank of nozzels every pass?  If it doesn't does
> it alter the offset on where it fires a bank so
> they all have the same position?
> 
> I imagine that if you can control the printheads
> like that under linux the direct inkjet resist
> people would love it.

I had a quick look in the gutenprint source code and
can see that every possible parameter you'd want to
change could be done (for epson, look in escp2-driver.c)

The whole thing is too big to figure out immediately.
There might be an external config file setting you could
change.

http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Download.php3