[cups.development] [RFE] STR #3681: CPUS provided, all driver, Toner/Ink "draft mode"
Bill Kirkpatrick
bill.kirkpatrick at earthlink.net
Mon Sep 27 07:02:52 PDT 2010
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Various printers/drivers provide various levels of "draft" mode, intended
to save Ink/Toner. Some work, some not so much, and some don't even
bother with such an option.
I discovered something called "Ecofont", a scaleable font with largish
holes cut out of it amounting to about 20% of the coverage area. I
noticed that on all of my printers (2 laser, 1 ink) the holes weren't even
visible until scaled quite large.
The concept is to add a print option at the CUPS level, w/o knowledge of
the drivers, such that the CUPS raster API will automatically cut a simple
1 pixel checkerboard pattern of white out of the raster planes delivered to
rastertoXXX drivers. That's a draft mode for everybody, with a 50%
consumable savings.
Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3681
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