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- This is min12xxw, a filter to convert pbmraw data such as produced by
- ghostscript to the printer language of Minolta 1[234]xx W printers.
-
- It is based on an initial driver by Adam Bocim <beetman@seznam.cz>.
- Support for the newer 13xxW and 1400W models is not tested by me because
- I do not have such a printer. However, I have had reports confirming that
- it also works increasingly well.
-
- Building and installing:
-
- This should be as simple as
-
- ./configure
- make
- make install
- make clean
-
- Binaries go to /usr/local/bin, manpages to /usr/local/man. This can be
- changed with options to configure (see INSTALL and/or ./configure --help).
-
-
- Comments:
-
- I do not add comments about how to integrate this driver into your printing
- system. I am sure there are a lot of people who can do this a lot better
- than I can (this is because I use somewhat antiquated software). If you
- think you can, put it onto the net or send me a copy for inclusion. I am
- not going to support this actively, because I haven't got the time or
- energy to do so. Maintaining the filter might prove enough work.
-
- However, the people at www.linuxprinting.org have produced .ppd files for
- this driver, so making this beast work should be quite easy for all recent
- Linux distributions.
-
- For usage instructions, see the manpage. In case of problems, please have a
- look at the FAQ which should answer some of the most frequently asked
- questions. License is in the file COPYING (it is GPL - stay relaxed...). If
- you want to understand the format in which data is sent to the printer, see
- the file format.txt and the sources.
-
- The build process builds an additional program, esc-m, which is also installed.
- Its main purpose was to ease viewing the output of the windoof driver during
- developent. It is still included because it might help to find problems.
- Also, if you can read the output for another printer with this tool and the
- output makes at least some sense, this might mean that the printer can be
- driven by this filter. I noticed support for PagePro 13xxW would be possible
- using this approach.
-
- I've had reports by people using min12xxw on at least the following machines
- and under the following operating systems:
-
- - Linux (x86, amd64, ppc)
- - FreeBSD (x86, amd64)
- - OS X (ppc)
- - NetBSD (sparc64)
- - Solaris (sparc64)
-
- This list is probably not complete, and the order in which the items are
- mentioned does not mean that the author prefers a certain platfrom or
- operating system. If you use min12xxw on a platform that is not listed
- here, please drop me an e-mail so I can include the information here.
-
-
- Thanks:
-
- I'd also like to give thanks to a few other people:
-
- Initial suggestions for reading some information from the printer came
- from Bruno Sch÷dlbauer <bruno.schoedlbauer@gmx.de>, who also pointed me
- to a nice USB sniffer by Benoεt Papillault for Windoof 98 and up, see
- http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop. (This little program may prove
- very helpful on similar occasions. Happy USB sniffing...)
-
- David Hamilton <dhamilto@angel.homeip.net> has helped a lot in testing and
- developing the support for the PagePro 1350W. His patience when testing
- things out was enormous. He really deserves a big THANKS.
-
- Krishnaprasad encouraged me to support the PagePro 1400W and helped testing
- the new code.
-
-
- Happy printing!
-
- Manuel Schiller (mala@hinterbergen.de)
-