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Re: Writing a Ghostscript uniprint driver

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Stewart C. Russell wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I've recently started experimenting with small roll-fed thermal printers,
> a bit like this one: <https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10438>. They all
> understand variants of Epson ESC-POS, which in turn is very similar to
> the ESC-P and ESC-P/2 command sets of Epson's older impact printers.
> 
> Ghostscript's uniprint driver - http://ghostscript.com/doc/7.07/
> Devices.htm#Uniprint - looks perfect for supporting these little devices.
> Unfortunately, there's precious little documentation on this elderly
> "community supported" driver. Particularly:
> 
> * There's little explanation of the upOutputFormat option
> * most of the parameters for terms like margins and print density are
> only hinted at, and never explained. Unsetting them, or removing them
> causes the output to fail.
> 
> These thermal printers are incredibly simple: 384 monochrome pixels
> across, 8 pixels/mm, effectively unlimited print length; printed (slowly,
> at 9600 baud) as 24 pixel deep by up to 384 pixel wide band.
> 
> Any suggestions, please, as to where I might find clearer guidelines?
> 
> thanks,
>  Stewart
> 
> (if anyone wishes to print to these from a bitmap, I wrote a little
> Python filter that should work on most of them: https://gist.github.com/
> scruss/95c61c9a1501ada2a6c5 )

Read the item 
13.3 Godzilla's guide to the creation of Unified Printer Parameter (.upp)
files
and the following chapters.

Helge

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Writing a Ghostscript uniprint driver "Stewart C. Russell" <scruss@scruss.com> - 2014-07-31 00:39 +0000
  Re: Writing a Ghostscript uniprint driver Helge Blischke <h.blischke@acm.org> - 2014-07-31 12:45 +0200
    Re: Writing a Ghostscript uniprint driver tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2014-07-31 14:05 -0400

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