Gutenprint / CUPS Dye-sublimation drivers

  • Status Closed
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  • Task Type Feature Request
  • Category HiTi family
  • Assigned To No-one
  • Operating System All
  • Severity Low
  • Priority Very Low
  • Reported Version 1.0
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Attached to Project: Gutenprint / CUPS Dye-sublimation drivers
Opened by pizza - 2014-02-27
Last edited by pizza - 2023-09-10

FS#521 - Investigate P530D, P310W, X610, and others?

P310W is consumer model; the rest are workhorse kiosk printers.

P530D is a duplexing variant of the P52x series. 

X610 is a tandem printhead high-throughput model that can spit out panoramas over 4 feet long.

P110 series has a binary-only driver

Closed by  pizza
2023-09-10 01:26
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  Split the remaining printers into their own tickets.
Admin
pizza commented on 2014-09-29 22:59

Looks like it uses a similar spoolfile format as the P110S; that is to say completely opaque and apparently compressed.

Admin
pizza commented on 2014-11-21 19:36

The actual printer comms are more sane, but realistically I will need direct access to the printers in order to set-an-option-and-watch-the-output-carefully.

Admin
pizza commented on 2018-09-21 17:38

Hiti has released source code for both the P52x and P7xx series, in the form of a CUPS driver.  One caveat -- HiTi claims it's "open source" but there's no license listed.  All files include the phrase "All Rights Reserved".

Meanwhile, the P530 and X610 have no Linux driver.

Admin
pizza commented on 2019-04-10 22:28
The P530D is a duplexing printer. Interesting.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-05-13 13:51
X610 and M610 are distinct models, with different drivers!

M610 is 0D16/0010
X610 is 0D16/0800

Plus:

P310 is 0D16/050A
P720 is 0D16/0009
P520 is 0D16/0502
P530 is 0D16/000f
P750 is 0D16/0501
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-06-04 00:01
It appears that the M610 is a rebadged Sinfonia S2245/S3.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-06-13 15:37
X610 is a very high speed (1.5/3.0s for 6x4 in std/hq mode) model, which explains the apparent duplication in functionality.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-08-25 01:30
I now have a P520L plugged into my printer wall. Wrote enough code to alow serial number to be queried.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-09-04 03:41
I can now query most runtime data on the P520L, and am able to at least parse the high-level structure of the windows printjobs. Data compression algorithm is still unknown. Good news is that most of this work will carry over to other HiTi models.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-10-02 00:33
P520L is now working! Still have some features to flesh out but it's perfectly usable now.
Admin
pizza commented on 2019-12-12 15:23
P525, P720, and P750L code is also complete, but untested.
Admin
pizza commented on 2020-02-13 20:14
X610 is a triple-head monster capable of 6x4->6x54" panoramas! Would be _really_ cool to get my hands on one of those, but the price is likely to be prohibitive.
Admin
pizza commented on 2020-03-11 00:59
HiTi P51x heat tables added to backend. Needs testing, naturally.
Admin
pizza commented on 2021-04-16 15:01

Someone with a P510S has shown up, lots of bugfixes have gone in, still WIP.

Admin
pizza commented on 2022-06-24 04:17
P510L is now working; the assumption is that the other P51x models will JustWork(tm). There's an open question for the format of the current SEHT2/CVD files but that doesn't matter right now.
Admin
pizza commented on 2022-06-27 00:17

I've figured out the structure for the newer SHET2-compatible files, plus the structured format the newer printers use for their heat data.  No idea how to map them to actual hw comms yet. 

Additionally, hooked up the first bits needed for P530D support. 

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