Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:03:50 +0200 From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@xxxxxxx> The Stylus Photo 950 is a seven-ink printer with sheet and roll feeder, in both GIMP and Foomatic the seven-ink mode is missing, but quadtone is there. The roll feeder is missing in both GIMP and Foomatic, too. Grr. My understanding was that the 950 has 7 ink tanks, but in fact has two identical black cartridges. Is this incorrect? I don't know why the rollfeed is missing, though; it's in the database. The Epson Stylus Photo 2100 has no quadtone in both GIMP and Foomatic, is this not possible on this model? Also the roll feeder is missing in both cases. Are you sure that this model has no roll feeder? Seven ink can be chosen in GIMP but not in Foomatic. I'm sure it's possible; we can always add the quadtone (or whatever becomes available) later for this printer. By looking into the CUPS PPD I have found the bug, it is a short name clash. The CUPS PPD contains the following: This is now fixed. 7-ink photo and 6-ink photo modes have the same short names, genppd lists both choices in the PPD, but they are not selectable. Foomatic seems to overwrite choices with equal short names. And as short names are the internal identifier for the spooler, they must be different. Even the PostScript commands in the shown PPD snippet are equal for the 6-ink and 7-ink modes, so the modes are really unselectable. Can it be that the GIMP plug-in only has a menu entry for 7-ink, but sets the same variable values as for 6-ink and the promising 7-ink output of GIMP you have seen was 6-ink in reality? Very likely. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
