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- <driver id="driver/min12xxw">
- <name>min12xxw</name>
- <url>http://www.hinterbergen.de/mala/min12xxw/</url>
- <execution>
- <filter />
- <prototype>gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pbmraw%A%Z -sOutputFile=- - | min12xxw%B</prototype>
- <!-- <ppdentry>
- *DefaultResolution: 600dpi
- </ppdentry> -->
- <margins>
- <general>
- <unit>in</unit>
- <relative />
- <left>0.17</left>
- <right>0.17</right>
- <top>0.17</top>
- <bottom>0.17</bottom>
- </general>
- </margins>
- </execution>
- <comments>
- <en>
-
- Min12xxw is a pbm filter by Manuel Tobias Schiller for various
- Minolta PagePro W-series (win)printers. The driver basically
- works, but is new and reports are few; thus it should be
- considered experimental, and the purchase of a printer that
- relies upon this driver is not advisable.
-
- <p>
-
- Min12xxw should run on most *nix-like workstations without
- major problems. The only problem that is to be expected on
- non-Linux systems are missing library functions such as getline
- or getopt_long. The query options may or may not work on other
- systems, depending on the characteristics of the printer driver
- and the interface used (USB, very old style parallel port or a
- more recent one...).
-
- <p>
-
- Min12xxw was written without any documentation from the
- manufacturer. The description of the printer language may be
- inaccurate or even wrong because it was obtained by looking at
- the output of the Windows driver only. The code dealing with
- the compression of raster data is in its spirit heavily based
- on an initial driver by Adam Bocim.
-
- <p>
-
- This driver features querying the printer status and page
- counter, a suggestion made by Bruno Schoedlbauer, who also
- pointed me to a nice <a
- href="http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop"
- >USB sniffer</a> for Windows 98 and up by
- Benoit Papillault.
-
- <p>
-
- Even though this program has been designed with care and much
- thought, no one can guarantee that this program will not damage
- your printer, computer or even your neighbour's car, because it
- was built without knowing exactly how things work, it's only a
- (hopefully) reasonable guess. (However, my printer does still
- work, even after the testing phase when a lot of wrong stuff
- was sent to it. And my neighbour hasn't complained either...)
-
- <p>
-
- Most of the available paper sizes have not actually been
- verified to work as adverised - reports about successes or
- problems are welcome. Also the code for querying the printer
- is not heavily tested. If you have comments to make or know
- more about the format than I do, please share your thoughts and
- your knowledge.
-
- <p>
-
- </en>
- </comments>
- <printers>
- <printer><id>printer/Minolta-PagePro_1200W</id></printer>
- <printer><id>printer/Minolta-PagePro_1250W</id></printer>
- <printer><id>printer/Minolta-PagePro_1300W</id></printer>
- <printer><id>printer/Minolta-PagePro_1350W</id></printer>
- <printer><id>printer/Minolta-PagePro_1400W</id></printer>
- </printers>
- </driver>
-