From fe8121fc6337641cad7f0c6044004d9f1333b6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: The_miro Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:00:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add printer.conf for the Epson DFX-5000+ Continuous fanfold, wide-carriage 9-pin printer, so it's configured like printer.conf.rollpaper.bak (no fixed page length) but with PRINTER_MAX_COLS set from the datasheet's rated 136-column printable area at default 10 cpi on 16in stock. --- printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) create mode 100644 printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak diff --git a/printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak b/printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7343d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# ASCII Photobooth printer configuration +# Sourced by txt2printr.sh and photobooth.py. + +# Is the printer loaded with A4 paper for a landscape printout? (true/false) +# Needle/dot-matrix printers have no hardware page-rotation command: the +# print head only scans across a fixed carriage width while the paper feeds +# in one fixed direction, so there is no way to make the physical page +# itself "landscape". Instead, when this is true: +# - txt2printr.sh rotates the ascii art 90 degrees in software before +# sending it to the printer (turn the printed page 90 degrees to read it) +# - photobooth.py sizes its live-preview viewfinder to an A4-landscape +# character grid instead of just following the terminal size, so what you +# see in the preview matches the shape of what gets printed +# The Epson DFX-5000+ is a wide-carriage tractor-feed printer that only +# takes continuous (fanfold) paper 4-16 in (101-406.4mm) wide - it has no +# A4 sheet path, so this stays false. +PRINTER_A4=false + +# Your printer's real per-page capacity in the normal (portrait, unrotated) +# orientation, used to size the A4 viewfinder above and to know when a print +# job already fills the page (see txt2printr.sh). Paper geometry and stated +# pitch don't reliably predict this - measure it directly with pagetest.sh: +# ./pagetest.sh && PRINTER_A4=false ./txt2printr.sh pagetest.txt +# then read off the last line number on page 1 (-> PRINTER_MAX_LINES) and +# how many characters of the 64-wide test lines actually printed before +# being cut off (-> PRINTER_MAX_COLS). +# +# Set PRINTER_MAX_LINES=0 for a roll/continuous-feed printer that has no +# fixed page length. In that mode photobooth.py sizes captures to fill +# PRINTER_MAX_COLS width and lets height follow the image's own aspect +# ratio instead of cropping to a row count, and txt2printr.sh always feeds +# the paper out at the end of a print instead of skipping the feed when a +# page is already full (there's no page to fill). +# +# The DFX-5000+ is fed from continuous fanfold stock rather than cut +# sheets, so it's treated the same as a roll printer here (0). Its DIP +# switch 2-1 does let it track a fixed 11 in or 12 in form length with +# perforation-skip, but that's a page-break convenience on the paper feed, +# not a limit on total printable length - re-measure with pagetest.sh if +# you rely on perforation-skip and want output to stop short of the next +# perforation instead of running past it. +# +# PRINTER_MAX_COLS below is the datasheet's rated printable-column count +# at the printer's default pitch (10 cpi) on its widest supported stock +# (16 in fanfold): 136 columns. That's the printer's own printable-area +# limit (0.51-1.22 in left margin, 0.51 in right margin), not a +# measurement against this install's actual loaded paper width - +# re-measure with pagetest.sh if narrower stock is loaded. +# Source: Epson DFX-5000 Product Information sheet (9-Pin Printers, +# 12/12/88), "Printable columns" table. +PRINTER_MAX_LINES=0 +PRINTER_MAX_COLS=136