/* Copyright (C) 1996 Aladdin Enterprises. All rights reserved. This software is provided AS-IS with no warranty, either express or implied. This software is distributed under license and may not be copied, modified or distributed except as expressly authorized under the terms of the license contained in the file LICENSE in this distribution. For more information about licensing, please refer to http://www.ghostscript.com/licensing/. For information on commercial licensing, go to http://www.artifex.com/licensing/ or contact Artifex Software, Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road #110, San Rafael, CA 94903, U.S.A., +1(415)492-9861. */ /* $Id: gdevlp8k.c,v 1.5 2004/08/10 13:02:36 stefan Exp $*/ /* EPSON LP-8000 ESC-sequence Laser Printer driver for Ghostscript. This driver structure is most close to that of the Epson 'ESC/P 2' language printer driver "gdevescp.c" contributed by Richard Brown, but all the control sequences and data formats are totally different. The main driver strategy is as follows. The driver scans lines, skips empty ones, removes leading and trailing zeros for other lines, compresses the non-zero rest of each line and finally outputs the data. At the moment the driver supports only 300x300 DPI resolution. If somebody needs 240x240, another valid value for LP-8000 printer, he or she can try to play with the corresponding values in initialization and termination strings. Or I shall spend some extra time for hacking, if enough people encourage me to do it. (The only available in our laboratory "Operation guide" in Japanese does not contain any information about it. And LP-8000 driver for Japanese Windows does not support this mode either.) The output data format is the following. 1. Initialization string, pretty long and sophisticated, I don't know why it was necessary. 2. Data bits for each line. The most general format includes both starting X and Y values as well as data type (simple or compressed). 3. Termination string. DATA FORMATS 1. A simple (non-compressed) data format. By evident reasons it is NOT SUPPORTED by the driver and is discussed here just as a starting point for the future explanations. "\035" here is an alias for 0x1d ESC-character : "\035" "Starting X point in ASCII format" "X" "\035" "Starting Y point in ASCII format" "Y" "\035" "Number of data BYTES for this printer line in ASCII format" ";" "Number of POINTS to print in this line (equals to the (Number of BYTES)*8)" ";" "1;obi{I" "data BYTES for this line in BINARY format" Both X and Y printer coordinates are 60 pixels shifted from the corresponding coordinates of the Ghostscript display, that is X = x - 60, Y = y - 60. For example, 1 inch left margin requires the value of 300 - 60 = 240 for starting X printer coordinate. Similar, 1.5 inch top margin requires Y values to start from 300*1.5 - 60 = 390. The shortest possible abbreviation for the simple data format string is "\035" "Starting Y point in ASCII format" "Y" "\035" "Number of data BYTES for this printer line in ASCII format" ";" "Number of POINTS to print in this line (equals to the (Number of BYTES)*8)" ";" "1;obi{I" "data BYTES for this line in BINARY format" In this case the value of the starting X point is assumed to be equal to that for the previous line. An example of the data output for 2 printer lines "\035"315X"\035"240Y"\035"2;16;1;obi{I"0ff0""\035"241Y"\035"3;24;1;obi{I"0f000f" Here "0ff0" is an alias for 0x0f 0xf0 binary data, etc. The first line of the above example starts from X=315, Y=240 and consists of 2 data bytes resulting in 4 blank (white) points followed by 8 black points followed by 4 white points on the paper. The second line starts from X=315, Y=241 and contains 3 data bytes resulting in output of 4 white, 4 black, 12 white and finally 4 black points. 2. Compressed data format (SUPPORTED BY THE DRIVER). General description is as follows. "\035" "Starting X point in ASCII format" "X" "\035" "Starting Y point in ASCII format" "Y" "\035" "3bcI" "\035" "Total number of compressed BYTES in ASCII format" ";" "Number of POINTS to print in this line" ";" "1;obi{I" "compressed data BYTES for this line in BINARY format" "\035" "0bcI" Additional ESC-sequences "\035" "3bcI" and "\035" "0bcI" mean start and end of the compressed data format, respectively. As in the discussed above case of a non-compressed data format, the shortest abbreviation has the form of "\035" "Starting Y point in ASCII format" "Y" "\035" "Total number of compressed BYTES in ASCII format" ";" "Number of POINTS to print in this line" ";" "1;obi{I" "compressed data BYTES for this line in BINARY format" COMPRESSED DATA BYTES FORMAT has the form of "d1 d2 d3 d4 d4 count_d4 d5 d6 d6 count_d6 ... d(n-1) d(n-1) count_d(n-1) dn" Here dx (x = 1 ... n) means data in a BINARY format. Any 2 repeated bytes MUST follow by the count, otherwise the printer will interpret the next data byte as a counter. The count value indicates how many bytes of the same value should be INSERTED after the repeated ones. So, the total number of repeated bytes is (count + 2), not count. If there are only 2 equal data bytes somewhere in the data stream, they MUST follow by zero. Example of 2 compressed data strings. "\035"105X"\035"320Y"\035"3bcI"\035"3;2048;1;obi{I"0000fe" "\035"105X"\035"321Y"\035"11;2048;1;obi{I"0000021fffffe5fc000011" The first one containing 3 bytes of compressed data will result in empty (zero) line of 2048 blank points started from X=105, Y=320. The second one containing 11 compressed data bytes will produce the picture of 4*8 + 3 = 35 white points followed by 5 + 16 + 0xe5*8 + 6 = 1859 black points followed by 2 + 8*19 = 154 white points (total 2048 points) started from X=105, Y=321. Strictly speaking, it was not necessary to adjust the number of points to the byte boundary. I did it for the sake of simplicity. One more argument in favor of this step is that the error of positioning does not exceed (7 / 300) inches or (7 / 118) cm, that is 0.6 mm, which is negligible, I guess. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION It is also possible to use LP-8000 printer with 180x180 DPI resolution as an "ibmpro" device from gdevepsn.c The only thing which should be corrected, is the value 0x30 in static const char ibmpro_init_string[]. Decimal 36 fixes the 1,5 times elongation along the vertical axis. It is also recommended to choose the appropriate values for all margins. In my case it was 0.2, 0.6, 0, 0.3 in the device descriptor instead of the 0.2, 0.95, 0, 1.0 Nevertheless, typical Latex file looked so ugly after printing in this mode, that I preferred to spend several days for hacking the format of the Japanese Windows printer output for 300 DPI resolution and create my own driver. Any suggestions, corrections, critical comments, etc. are welcome! Oleg Fat'yanov */ #include "gdevprn.h" #ifndef X_DPI #define X_DPI 300 #endif #ifndef Y_DPI #define Y_DPI 300 #endif #define L_MARGIN 0.25 #define B_MARGIN 0.25 #define R_MARGIN 0.25 #define T_MARGIN 0.25 private dev_proc_print_page(lp8000_print_page); gx_device_printer far_data gs_lp8000_device = prn_device(prn_std_procs, "lp8000", DEFAULT_WIDTH_10THS, DEFAULT_HEIGHT_10THS, X_DPI, Y_DPI, L_MARGIN, B_MARGIN, R_MARGIN, T_MARGIN, 1, lp8000_print_page); private int lp8000_print_page(gx_device_printer *pdev, FILE *prn_stream) { int line_size = gdev_mem_bytes_per_scan_line((gx_device *)pdev); int in_size = line_size; byte *buf1 = (byte *)gs_malloc(pdev->memory, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf1)"); byte *buf2 = (byte *)gs_malloc(pdev->memory, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf2)"); byte *in = buf1; byte *out = buf2; int lnum, top, bottom, left, width; int count, i, left1, left2, left0; /* Check memory allocations */ if ( buf1 == 0 || buf2 == 0 ) { if ( buf1 ) gs_free(pdev->memory, (char *)buf1, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf1)"); if ( buf2 ) gs_free(pdev->memory, (char *)buf2, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf2)"); return_error(gs_error_VMerror); } /* Initialize the printer */ fwrite("\033\001@EJL \n",1,8,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL EN LA=ESC/PAGE\n",1,20,prn_stream); fwrite("\035rhE\033\001@EJL \n",1,12,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL SE LA=ESC/PAGE\n",1,20,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL SET PU=1 PS=A4 ZO=OFF\n",1,27,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL EN LA=ESC/PAGE\n",1,20,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;0.24muE\0352;300;300drE",1,23,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;300;300drE\0351tsE\0351mmE",1,23,prn_stream); fwrite("\0357isE\0355iaF\0355ipP\03514psE\0350poE",1,26,prn_stream); fwrite("\03560;60loE\0350X\0350Y",1,15,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;0;2360;3388caE",1,17,prn_stream); fwrite("\0351cmE\0350alfP",1,11,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350affP\0350boP\0350abP",1,16,prn_stream); fwrite("\0354ilG\0350bcI\0350sarG",1,16,prn_stream); fwrite("\0351;0;100spE\0352owE",1,16,prn_stream); /* Here the common part of the initialization string ends */ /* Calculate the PRINTER_LEFT_MARGIN = device_left_margin - 60 adjusted to the byte boundary. Save this value for future comparison and set the starting X value of the printer line. */ left1 = (int) (L_MARGIN * pdev->x_pixels_per_inch) - 60; left1 = (left1 >> 3) << 3; left0 = left1; fwrite("\035",1,1,prn_stream); fprintf(prn_stream,"%d",left1); fwrite("X",1,1,prn_stream); /* Set the compressed data format */ fwrite("\0353bcI",1,5,prn_stream); top = T_MARGIN * pdev->y_pixels_per_inch; bottom = pdev->height - B_MARGIN * pdev->y_pixels_per_inch; left = ( (int) (L_MARGIN * pdev->x_pixels_per_inch) ) >> 3 ; width = ((pdev->width - (int)(R_MARGIN * pdev->x_pixels_per_inch)) >> 3) - left; /* ** Print the page: */ for ( lnum = top; lnum < bottom ; ) { byte *in_data; byte *inp; byte *in_end; byte *outp; register byte *p, *q; int lcnt; /* ** Check buffer for 0 data. */ gdev_prn_get_bits(pdev, lnum, in, &in_data); while ( in_data[0] == 0 && !memcmp((char *)in_data, (char *)in_data + 1, line_size - 1) && lnum < bottom ) { lnum++; gdev_prn_get_bits(pdev, lnum, in, &in_data); } if(lnum == bottom ) break; /* finished with this page */ lcnt = gdev_prn_copy_scan_lines(pdev, lnum, in, in_size); inp = in + left; in_end = inp + width; /* Remove trailing 0s form the scan line data */ while (in_end > inp && in_end[-1] == 0) { in_end--; } /* Remove leading 0s form the scan line data */ for(left2 = 0; inp < in_end && inp[0] == 0; inp++,left2++); /* Recalculate starting X value */ left2 = left1 + (left2 << 3); /* Compress non-zero data for this line*/ outp = out; for( p = inp, q = inp + 1 ; q < in_end ; ) { if( *p != *q++ ) { /* Copy non-repeated bytes to the output buffer */ *outp++ = *p++; } else { for (count = 2; ( *p == *q ) && (q < in_end); q++, count++); /* Copy repeated bytes and counts to the output buffer. As long as count is <= 255, additional step is necessary for a long repeated sequence */ while (count > 257) { *outp++ = *p; *outp++ = *p; *outp++ = 255; p += 257; count -=257; } *outp++ = *p; *outp++ = *p; *outp++ = count - 2; p += count; q = p+1; } } /* The next line is necessary just in case of a single non-repeated byte at the end of the input buffer */ if (p == (in_end - 1)) *outp++ = *p; /* End of the compression procedure */ /* Set a new value of the starting X point, if necessary */ if (left2 != left0) { left0 = left2; fwrite("\035",1,1,prn_stream); fprintf(prn_stream,"%d",left2); fwrite("X",1,1,prn_stream); } /* Output the data string to the printer. Y coordinate of the printer equals (lnum - 60) */ fwrite("\035",1,1,prn_stream); fprintf(prn_stream,"%d",lnum-60); fwrite("Y\035",1,2,prn_stream); fprintf(prn_stream,"%d;",(outp - out)); fprintf(prn_stream,"%d;",(in_end - inp) << 3); fwrite("1;0bi{I",1,7,prn_stream); fwrite(out,1,(outp - out),prn_stream); lnum++; } /* Send the termination string */ fwrite("\0350bcI",1,5,prn_stream); fwrite("\0351coO",1,5,prn_stream); fwrite("\035rhE",1,4,prn_stream); fwrite("\033\001@EJL \n",1,8,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL SE LA=ESC/PAGE\n",1,20,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL SET PU=1 PS=A4 ZO=OFF\n",1,27,prn_stream); fwrite("@EJL EN LA=ESC/PAGE\n",1,20,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;0.24muE\0352;300;300drE",1,23,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;300;300drE\0351tsE\0351mmE",1,23,prn_stream); fwrite("\0357isE\0355iaF\0355ipP\03514psE\0350poE",1,26,prn_stream); fwrite("\03560;60loE\0350X\0350Y",1,15,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350;0;2360;3388caE",1,17,prn_stream); fwrite("\0351cmE\0350alfP",1,11,prn_stream); fwrite("\0350affP\0350boP\0350abP",1,16,prn_stream); fwrite("\0354ilG\0350bcI\0350sarG",1,16,prn_stream); fwrite("\035rhE",1,4,prn_stream); fwrite("\033\001@EJL \n",1,8,prn_stream); fwrite("\033\001@EJL \n",1,8,prn_stream); fflush(prn_stream); gs_free(pdev->memory, (char *)buf2, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf2)"); gs_free(pdev->memory, (char *)buf1, in_size, 1, "lp8000_print_page(buf1)"); return 0; }