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diff --git a/doc/developer/reference-html/c1717.html b/doc/developer/reference-html/c1717.html index 8e09502..0d98cde 100644 --- a/doc/developer/reference-html/c1717.html +++ b/doc/developer/reference-html/c1717.html @@ -1,27 +1,24 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Weaving for inkjet printers</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" -CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK +CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="The Developer's Guide to Gutenprint" -HREF="index.html"><LINK +HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Appropriate Remote Commands" HREF="x1669.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Weaving algorithms" -HREF="x1734.html"></HEAD +HREF="x1734.html"><META +http-equiv="Content-Type" +content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" -BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" -TEXT="#000000" -LINK="#0000FF" -VLINK="#840084" -ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE @@ -73,18 +70,37 @@ NAME="AEN1717" ></A >Chapter 6. Weaving for inkjet printers</H1 ><DIV +CLASS="TOC" +><DL +><DT +><B +>Table of Contents</B +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="c1717.html#AEN1719" +>Introduction</A +></DT +><DT +><A +HREF="x1734.html" +>Weaving algorithms</A +></DT +></DL +></DIV +><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="AEN1719" ->6.1. Introduction</A +>Introduction</A ></H1 ><P > The Epson Stylus Color/Photo printers don't have memory to print using all of the nozzles in the print head. For example, the Stylus Photo 700/EX has 32 nozzles. At 720 dpi, with an 8" wide - image, a single line requires ((8 × 720 × 6) / 8) + image, a single line requires ((8 Ă— 720 Ă— 6) / 8) bytes, or 4320 bytes (because the Stylus Photo printers have 6 ink colors). To use 32 nozzles per color would require 138240 bytes. It's actually worse than that, though, because the @@ -99,12 +115,12 @@ NAME="AEN1719" ><P > With the newer (740/750 and later) printers it's even worse, since these printers support multiple dot sizes; of course, the - even newer 2880×720 printers don't help either. + even newer 2880Ă—720 printers don't help either. </P ><P > Older Epson printers had a mode called MicroWeave<SUP ->™</SUP +>™</SUP >. In this mode, the host fed the printer individual rows of dots, and the printer bundled them up and sent them to the print head in the correct @@ -112,7 +128,7 @@ NAME="AEN1719" in new printers, but in some cases the implementation is very minimal: the printer uses exactly one nozzle of each color (the first one). This makes printing extremely slow (more than 30 - minutes for one 8.5×11" page), although the quality is + minutes for one 8.5Ă—11" page), although the quality is extremely high with no visible banding whatsoever. It's not good for the print head, though, since no ink is flowing through the other nozzles. This leads to drying of ink and possible @@ -155,11 +171,11 @@ NAME="AEN1719" ><P > Interestingly, apparently the Windows (and presumably Macintosh) drivers for most or all Epson printers still list a - “microweave” mode. Experiments have demonstrated - that this does not in fact use the “microweave” mode + “microweave” mode. Experiments have demonstrated + that this does not in fact use the “microweave” mode of the printer. Possibly it does nothing, or it uses a different weave pattern from what the - “non-microweave” mode does. This is unnecessarily + “non-microweave” mode does. This is unnecessarily confusing, at least for people who write drivers who try to explain them to people who don't. </P @@ -240,7 +256,7 @@ WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A -HREF="index.html" +HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD |