[Foomatic] I wrote a driver for the Lexmark X125 - What now?

Mark Roth markroth8 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 6 06:49:09 PST 2004


Hi Roger,

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.
 
> 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?

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.

> This now includes support for dynamically loadable printer drivers, so
> if you wanted, you could add Gimp-Print support by writing a new
> driver plug-in, but it is probably easiest to use the existing Lexmark
> driver (in Gimp-Print, we have "family" drivers for various printer
> types e.g. Canon, ESC/P2, Lexmark, PCL etc., and each supports the
> various models for that manufacturer).

Sounds like writing a Lexmark "family" driver is the way to go.

> Richard Wisenoecker <Richard.Wisenoecker at gmx.at> is the Lexmark
> maintainer.
> 
> 
> BTW, if you wanted to write a standalong IJS server to work with gs,
> the IJS source and documentation is available from
> <URL:http://www.linuxprinting.org/ijs/>.

Thanks for the pointers!

- Mark



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