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RE: Printing Panos with Epson Photo 1270

Greetings,

This is a follow-up to my post of almost two months ago. I have some good news for at least the more stalwart Epson printer users out there: I just took an 11" by 56" roll pano print off of my Epson Stylus Photo 1270 printer.

To accomplish this feat, I printed out of the gimp under XWindows on a Linux-Mandrake 8.0 system using the gimp-print plug-in. The code to make it work is only available in the most recent release of gimp-print, which has not made it into the standard Linux distributions, yet. It also requires a minor modification to the source code. So, it is necessary to download and compile the gimp-print plug-in from source. It is available here:

   http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/

Note that it requires a fairly recent installation of the gimp (1.2 or later) and all of the gimp devel libraries to compile (see the readme.)

To make the modification, find the section of src/main/print-escp2.c with the info on your printer (the 1270, in my case) :

  /* 23: Stylus Photo 1270 */
  {
    (MODEL_INIT_NEW | MODEL_HASBLACK_YES | MODEL_INK_NORMAL
     | MODEL_COLOR_6 | MODEL_720DPI_DEFAULT | MODEL_VARIABLE_MULTI
     | MODEL_COMMAND_1999 | MODEL_GRAYMODE_NO | MODEL_ENHANCED_MICROWEAVE_NO
     | MODEL_ROLLFEED_YES | MODEL_XZEROMARGIN_YES | MODEL_YZEROMARGIN_NO
     | MODEL_VACUUM_NO),
    48, 3, 48, 3, 360, 360, INCH(13), INCH(44), 0, 0, 0, 9, 0, 1, 0,
    360, 720, 720, 14400,
    default_head_offset, 1440, 720, p4pl_dotsizes, c4pl_densities,
    &variable_4pl_6color_inks,
    standard_lum_adjustment, standard_hue_adjustment, standard_sat_adjustment
  },

Change INCH(44) to INCH(1200) before you compile.

I ran into some problems with the UI. It would not allow me to change the height of the output in the print window. I was forced to make those changes in the printrc file. This may be specific to Linux-Mandrake 8.0, the version of GTK that comes with it, or idiosyncratic to my installation. We are still working on it.

In any case, the 44" length limitation is clearly specific to Epson's drivers and not the printer hardware. There is some potential for developments in the distant future which could make printing at >44" available in other environments.

I also saw a rumor that the current version of the Epson driver for Win2K supports printing up to 120". I have not yet verified this.

I hope others out there find this useful.

This message is being BCC'd to a number of people who had or are having similar discussions about the Epson 44" length limit in other forums.

Andrew Crawford
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