A Suggestion for KDEPrint

[Till Kamppeter]

One should have something which allows plugging in arbitrary command 
line tools, as escputil for Epson or ink 
(http://home.arcor.de/markusheinz/ink.html) for HP. AFAIR is on the 
MTink page (http://xwtools.automatix.de/ also a command line tool for 
Canon inkjet printers.

    Till

Karl Scheel wrote:
> Greetings, KDEPrint Developers!
> 
> A little more than one month ago, I tried to download the utility, 
> /kepsontools/. However, when I tried to install it, I discovered that it 
> was incompatible with my version of KDE (i.e., 2.2.2); it was the only 
> version that was available from the download site, and required the 
> older /Qt-1.2/ libraries. I tried contacting the author of this program 
> directly after following a link from the download site to the author's 
> own Web site to try to get an updated version. However, the author 
> informed me that he is no longer involved with the project.
> 
> /kepsontools/ is a utility that performs the following functions for 
> Epson Stylus Color ink-jet printers:
> 
>    1. monitoring the ink levels,
>    2. cleaning the print head,
>    3. aligning the print head,
>    4. printing test pages.
> 
> A similar utility has been taken for granted for several years by 
> Windows users.
> 
> The fact that this utility must rely on specific Qt libraries is in my 
> opinion, ridiculous; it means that it must be rewritten with each 
> release of a new KDE version, which occurs quite frequently. I would 
> like to know if KDEPrint could be modified in the following manner:
> 
>    1. Give it the ability to accommodate /kepsontools/ and similar
>       utilities as plug-ins.
>    2. Provide a simple, universal API for these utilities so that they
>       are no longer directly dependant upon the Qt libraries.
>    3. Let KDEPrint serve as the liaison between these utilities and the
>       Qt libraries, so that compatibility is achieved regardless of the
>       KDE version.
> 
> Thank you very much for your consideration.
> 
> Karl,
> Toronto, Canada
> 
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