[Foomatic] My Lexmark X125 driver needs to read from the printer
Mark Roth
markroth8 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 11 15:28:39 PST 2004
Hi Till,
I used the same setup to test my driver, but dismissed it for the release
because it seemed too difficult to set up. :) I want the user experience to
be very straightforward.
Is there a better way?
Can we add an execution mode to foomatic for "direct-to-device" perhaps? I'd
imagine there are other drivers that would benefit from being able to read
status codes from the printer as well. Another alternative would be to add a
second prototype for sending the data to the device once it's been rendered,
which would default to a pass-through filter.
Regarding the network mode, that might be more difficult. I've had to write a
separate driver for the Lexmark X125 for Samba so my wife (who is running Win
ME) can use my Linux box as a print server. When Windows clients connect to
Samba and try to print, the raw data is not properly encoded. I wrote a filter
that wraps the windows raw data and adds the appropriate packet headers to get
the printer to print. The network filter needs to read the status codes as
well to clear the buffer.
Thoughts?
- Mark
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