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

Hi,
        Using your patch with Media Source set to "Manual", I was able to print
correctly to the CD using glabels, with the attached template I
created.  Other users might have similar success.  This seems to be a
pretty reasonable option now.  Thanks!  For any users who might like to
use the template, put it in your .glabels directory.  When you run
glabels, you should be able to find the template under the A4 paper size
list.  Note printers which use Tray type 1 will have a little different
geometry.

Thanks!
Ken

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 19:17, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
>    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.
-- 
Kenneth P. Esler Jr.
UIUC Dept. of Physics
3139 Engineering Sciences Building
(217) 333-3087 (Office)
(217) 390-8132 (Cell)

EpsonCDTray2.template
Description: Text Data