[cups] Printing to native XPS printers using CUPS
Till Kamppeter
till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 02:05:38 PDT 2015
On 10/16/2015 05:56 AM, Gernot Hassenpflug wrote:
> That means we are on our own for the time being.
> I have been looking around for printers to test with, but
> unfortunately I cannot find (yet) any reasonably cheap second-hand
> devices on auction here in Tokyo that would make it feasible for me to
> obtain.
>
Would it be complicated to make a simple rastertoxps driver, sending all
pages as bitmaps to the printer, so needing a tiny subset of XPS only?
Advantages would be:
- Quick implementation as based on a tiny subset of XPS
- Independent of Ghostscript so it can be used on mobile devices with
only Poppler available
- Print quality should be the same as with other raster/host-based printers
Disadvantages:
- Vector graphics sent to the printer allows more detailed color management
- Depending on internal architecture of the printer, vector graphics
could be processed faster and less resource-consuming.
The disadvantages are probably not so severe, as sophisticated color
management is only needed in a few situations, especially not when
printing from mobile devices and modern printers are powerful enough to
print full-page bitmaps.
WDYT?
Volunteers welcome!
If someone contributes such a filter I would add it to the cups-filters
package. Should be not so difficult for who has an XPS printer for
testing and using another rasterto... filter from the cups-filters
package as template.
Till
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