Re: P700 and P900 full channel support

Walker Blackwell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.printing.gimp-print.devel
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Looking at an open source ESCP/R API it shows matte black as 0x0B which I think used to be photo glossy . . . I’ll test


best
Walker





> On Nov 9, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Walker Blackwell <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 11:09 PM, Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 10/29/21 3:37 PM, Walker Blackwell wrote:
>>> MK = Matte Black (sorry for the lingo).
>> 
>> That's interesting.  We support matte black for a lot of other printers, and the channel/subchannel
>> are always the same.  I'm very surprised matte black isn't working out of the box.
> 
> Yeah, well it’s a weird one all right. I don’t know (without looking at the legit API) what info can be scraped from the ESCP/R data regarding this. I’ll poke around best I can.
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>> 
>> Violet's an interesting one.  I wonder if that really is violet, and what the use case is.  It's not
>> especially easy to get good results from red, orange, green, and blue (which some other printers
>> have).  But violet is really out of gamut for just about anything.
> 
> Epson introduced violet with the SureColor line as their “commercial” 99% Pantone match color. It’s for contract proofing, etc.
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> -Walker
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>>> We’ll get these printers in and I’ll do a parse.
>>> 
>>> best
>>> Walker
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 29, 2021, at 12:54 PM, Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>> On 10/25/21 9:20 AM, Walker Blackwell wrote:
>>>>> Hey everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does anyone want to do USB scrapes and/or support work for Epson P700 and P900 printers? Current ESCP/2 channel addresses work for everything but MK and Violet. I can get my hands on these two printers I think though. I could also do the scrapes and send but I don’t have the knowledge to decipher the channels selection code myself.
>>>> 
>>>> Sure, that would be great.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot I can do other than add them as a raw
>>>> channel.  The byte stream is sufficient; parse-escp2 will give me the channel identifiers.
>>>> 
>>>> What is MK?
>> 
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