# 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
# This install is loaded with single-sheet A4 stock (not the wide 4-16in
# fanfold covered by printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak) and actually prints on
# it fine, so this stays true - running the unrotated portrait variant on
# this narrower stock wastes paper instead of using the full sheet.
PRINTER_A4=true

# 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).
#
# Measured on this A4 sheet arrangement: 70 lines, 80 columns.
#
# Unlike printer.conf.epsondfx5kp.bak (PRINTER_MAX_LINES=0, treated as
# unbounded roll stock), this arrangement uses real single A4 sheets, so a
# fixed page length applies here and PRINTER_MAX_LINES is non-zero. This
# matters beyond just the end-of-job form feed in txt2printr.sh: this A4
# sheet's true page length (297mm / 11.69in) does not match the DFX-5000+'s
# "11-inch" DIP page-length option documented in epson5kp-dipsettings.md for
# the fanfold arrangement (SW3-1/3-2 OFF, OFF). Running that mismatched
# setting on A4 stock was the cause of a repeatable skip (blank gap starting
# 8 lines into the printed image, 6 lines tall - a 1in perforation-skip gap
# at 6 lpi firing at the wrong spot because the printer's idea of the page
# boundary drifted from the real one). The datasheet's "70 lines/6 lpi"
# page-length option (70 lines * 1/6 in = 11.67in) matches this A4 sheet
# length far more closely than the 11-inch option and is what SW3-1/3-2
# should be set to for this arrangement instead - see epson5kp-dipsettings.md
# for the fanfold DIP baseline this varies from.
PRINTER_MAX_LINES=70
PRINTER_MAX_COLS=80