[cups.development] New drivers for SPL2 Printers (Samsung)

[Aurélien Croc]

Le Dimanche 27 Août 2006 17:12, Kurt Pfeifle a écrit :
> I just found that the download file "splix-0.0.1.tar.bz2" is in fact
> *not* bzip2-compressed, but gzip-compressed. So it can't be unpacked
> using the "-j" switch of tar. If one uses "-z" unpacking works:
>
>   tar tvzf splix-0.0.1.tar.bz2
>
> Better rename the file to "splix-0.0.1.tar.gz" or "splix-0.0.1.tgz".


Thank you for this error! It has been fix. Sorry

> You may probably want to explain in a paragraph or two what SPL2 is 
> (proprietary printer language by Samsung, right?)

SPL is the Samsung Printer Language which is a proprietary language developed 
by Samsung and Microsoft for several Samsung and i guess Xerox printers.

I found three versions of SPL languages: SPL, SPLC and SPL2.

I just implemented the SPL2 which is the language used by new B&W printers.
SPLC is a variation of the SPL2 language for colours printers (I'm currently 
working on it). Finally SPL seems to be the SmartGDI language used by old 
printers like ML-1210, ML-1430 etc.

SPL2 and SPLC are compressed bitmap description. 
Two compression methods are available. The first one has been implemented in 
Splix (it seems to be used for graphical documents) whereas i'm working on 
the second compression method (which seems to be used for text document).


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M. Aurélien Croc
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