[Foomatic] I wrote a driver for the Lexmark X125 - What now?
Roger Leigh
roger at whinlatter.uklinux.net
Tue Jan 6 12:14:50 PST 2004
markroth8 at yahoo.com (Mark Roth) writes:
> In article <mailman.1073395864.8300.foomatic-devel at linuxprinting.org>, Roger
> Leigh <roger at whinlatter.uklinux.net> writes:
>> If you are interested in making your driver work with Gimp-Print, we
>> have a mailing list, gimp-print-devel at lists.sourceforge.net. We have
>> a lexmark family driver (print-lexmark), and it may be the case that
>> you could add the Z42 support to the existing driver.
>
> Great! I'm joining it...
>
> By the way, the Z42 driver was already written by Alwin Stolk. I'm working on
> a driver for the X125.
Sorry--my mistake.
>> Our current development branch (4.3.x) is due to go alpha very soon.
>
> When would I need to commit my driver to make it available in the 4.3.x branch?
> Is there a feature freeze coming up?
The freeze will probably not be for a while yet. As long as the
changes were not intrusive, there shouldn't be a problem. If the X125
is similar to the other Lexmark models, this shouldn't be a problem.
I don't think major API changes will be permitted (just additions),
but an X125 driver should be totally contained within print-lexmark,
and since this is a plug-in, it won't impact on the core API.
> I think I'd like to complete my standalone driver first (add color support,
> bi-directional printing and higher dpi), but it sounds like gimp-print is the
> correct long-term solution.
It should certainly make some things simpler: all the dithering and
colour conversion is done for you: your driver can then concentrate on
doing the model-specific stuff. If you integrate the X125 support
into the print-lexmark code, you can also take advantage of the
generic Lexmark code that's already been written.
Regards,
Roger
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