Gutenprint / CUPS Dye-sublimation drivers

  • Status Requires testing
  • Percent Complete
    80%
  • Task Type Feature Request
  • Category Shinko CHC-S6245/ Kodak 8810
  • Assigned To No-one
  • Operating System All
  • Severity Low
  • Priority Medium
  • Reported Version 1.0
  • Due in Version Undecided
  • Due Date Undecided
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Attached to Project: Gutenprint / CUPS Dye-sublimation drivers
Opened by pizza - 2019-10-18
Last edited by pizza - 2024-01-07

FS#634 - Support Panorama sizes on EK8810

EK8810 in the APEX system supports:

8x14, 8x16, 8x18, 8x20, 8x22, 8x24, 8x32, and 8x36 print sizes.

(8x32, and 8x36 are presumably only available on 8x12 media)

Figure out how to make this happen. And what needs to be done on the overlapping areas.

Admin
pizza commented on 2020-02-27 01:00
To make progress, I will need access to documentation and/or USB sniffs from an APEX system. Neither is likely.
Admin
pizza commented on 2021-03-15 12:36

Kodak just released a firmware update and windows driver that supports.. 8x14, 8x16, 8x20, 8x24, 8x32, 8x36 sizes.

Admin
pizza commented on 2021-03-15 13:08

ok, the windows driver just sends a single large print (eg 8x36 == 2624*10824) and the firmware presumably does the rest!

Admin
pizza commented on 2021-03-15 13:46
It's implemented, and pushed to gutenprint. Now all we need is someone to actually _test_ this stuff!
Admin
pizza commented on 2021-05-16 03:51

It's possible the driver needs to chop things up behind the scenes.  There's also a command that a now-deleted sniff has that presumably is used to check that it's okay to start printing a panorama.

Admin
pizza commented on 2021-07-12 00:29

Driver is confirmed to chop things up behind the scenes.  Don't know how panorama is specified over-the-wire.

Admin
pizza commented on 2021-07-13 02:27

Reworked. Backend now splits up the single large "panel" into smaller overlapping panels. Fading/blending of the overlapping regions isn't implemented yet.  Do not know what has to change in the command header for each panel.

 

Admin
pizza commented on 2024-01-07 17:33

Pano splits are plubmed into backend now.  However, we still don't know how to make the printer do the split.

Admin
pizza commented on 2024-01-21 23:16

Uncovered a pile of bugs in the sinfonia_pano_split code; fixed them up.  But no way to test still.

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