Re: Re: Reverse-engineering CD printing on the Epson R300

   From: "Kenneth P. Esler Jr." <esler@xxxxxxxx>
   Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:49:17 -0500

   The patch does indeed work, allowing printing from the plugin.  The
   alignment is about 3/4" too far left and about 1/2" too far up.  I
   tried changing to the 399, 394 as you suggested, but this did not
   appear to change the alignment.  I also note that if I try to print
   only in the top half of the CD, the CD feeds, but nothing at all
   gets printed.

I'll have to experiment with this.  It's just a matter of getting time
to play with it.

   I was wondering how I might add A4 to the list of allowable page
   sizes for the CD printing.  Using A4 page size appears to be what
   Epson recommends to developers for CD printing, as per the
   following document:
   http://www.epsondevelopers.com/documents/CDDVDTemplate.pdf The way
   the plugin works, with the custom page sizes, is fine, but for
   applications printing through the cups driver, making A4 templates
   may be the easiest way to go.

Right, but that doesn't mean that it's necessary to offer A4 to the
user for this purpose.  The driver simply dummies up the right page
size to satisfy the printer, and tells the user what the correct size
of the CD is.  There's no reason that what the user is told and what
the printer is told have to be the same thing.

You could use your template and print with manual feed (rather than
direct to CD) with the patch I gave you.  It would amount to the same
thing.

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