Re: [SPAM] Request support for "Kyocera FS-1020MFP"

Solomon Peachy via Gimp-print-devel <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:14:40 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.printing.gimp-print.devel
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On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 10:38:07PM +0100, Amin Guermazi wrote:
> Its name is "Kyocera FS-1020MFP"

According to Kyocera, this printer only supports a "host-based" PDL 
instead of something standardized (eg PCL or Postscript)

> I'd be pleased if you can fulfill my request. Thanks in advance.

In order for Gutenprint to add support for this model, we need to know 
how the printer expects the page data to be generated and sent over. 
This information can be obtained in one of two ways:

 (a) comprehensive technical documentation from Kyocera, or
 (b) a significant, time-consuming reverse-engineering effort by 
     someone with direct physical access to one of these models.

Once there is sufficient documentation as to how this printer works, 
only then can an actual driver be written.  This also represents a 
non-trivial amount of effort.

It will be far, far cheaper to just replace the printer with one that uses
a standard PDL.

 - Solomonw
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