Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:31:40 +0200
From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmx.net>
Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>
> I just got a report that by modifying the length limits in the
> library, someone was able to print an 11.3x56" print out of a Stylus
> Photo 1270. I think I'm going to bump all of those printers up to
> allowing 1200" printouts (same as the Stylus Pros). Most interesting!
See www.refill-faq.de on how to equip an inkjet printer with external
ink barrels, otherwise you will have a problem with 1200" printouts.
I'm familiar (at least in reading) with continuous inking systems
(CIS); the Epson inkjet FAQ (http://home.att.net/~arwomack01/) has
quite a lot on the subject.
Perhaps we should break the world record in the biggest digital printout
on next year's LinuxTag in Stuttgart/Germany.
I don't think we'll quite accomplish that, because I don't think the
1270 can do longer prints than the Stylus Pro 10000 and friends, but
it would still be most impressive.
There I had a booth with
Grant Taylor, Michael Goffioul and others about free software printing
and I will probably set up such a booth next year, too.
How well did the booth do? Were people excited about this?
This would be a
nice demonstration would Linux is able to and Windows (once the driver
does not do it, and second, Windows would not run continuously for
several days) not.
Not to mention the issue of spool space; the Windows drivers seem to
be notorious pigs in that regard. This will take significant
planning, even if the printer will actually do it (which is by no
means a given).
-- Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gimp Print/stp -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
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