Kodak Printer User's Manual
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1. Host Services DEPICT and PCONFIG are trademarks of Ki Research AVS is a trademark of Stardent Computer Inc VAX VMS and DECnet are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation X Window System is a trademark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology UNIX is a registered trademark of AT amp T Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox Corporation Motif is a trademark of the Open Software Foundation Inc SunPHIGS is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc Kodak is a trademark of Eastman Kodak Company Part Number 517941 960 AA April 1991 Copyright 1991 by Evans amp Sutherland Computer Corporation All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Table of Contents Table of Contents o O 1 A Interface na eigenen een 2 CORS Interface ze o een 2 O 3 Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 Introduction The BSD Ipr command can be set up to use a printer which is located on a re mote host By using this capability one printer can easily be shared by many machines To set up the printer several files have to be changed The most important is the etc printcap file There is already an entry for the KODAK XL 7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer All that is needed is for the system admin istrator to uncomment it Once the printer software has been installed and the printcap file updated the printer can be used by the local machine To use the machine from a remote ESV Workstation t2. compatibility with xpr This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr This changes the intensity of the colors printed by the KODAK printer The correction is a floating point val ue in the range 0 00 to 3 00 Consult the operator s manual to determine the correct value for a specific printer This allows the KODAK printer to vary edge enhance ment Consult the operator s manual to determine which algorithms are available This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr Specifies the filename of the image to be printed Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 See Also xwd 1 xwud 1 X 1 Limitations The current version of xkpr can only print out X windows that are 32 bit true color visuals or 32 bit direct color visuals Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 5
3. ESV Workstation Kodak Printer User s Manual ln s Je init 5 asd led Printer i Ve re EVANS amp SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORPORATION Salt Lake City Utah DOCUMENTATION WARRANTY PURPOSE This documentation is provided to assist an Evans amp Sutherland trained BUYER in using a product purchased from Evans amp Sutherland It may contain errors or omissions that only a trained individual may recognize Changes may have occurred to the hardware software to which this documentation refers which are not included in this documentation or may be on a separate errata sheet Use of this documentation in such changed hardware software could result in damage to hardware software User assumes full responsibility of all such results of the use of this data WARRANTY This document is provided and Buyer accepts such documentation AS IS and with ALL FAULTS ERRORS AND OMISSIONS BUYER HEREBY WAIVES ALL IMPLIED AND OTHER WARRANTIES GUARANTIES CONDITIONS OR LIABILITIES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED ARISING BY LAW OR OTHERWISE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATIONS ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS BUYER FURTHER HOLDS SELLER HARMLESS OF ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ESV ESV Series ESV Series Workstations ES os ES Dnet ES PEX ES PHIGS ES PSX Clean Line Fiber Link Local Server CDRS and Shadowfax are trademarks of Evans amp Sutherland Computer Corporation LAT
4. ion render algorithm slide filename xkpr takes as input a window dump file produced by xwd 1 and formats it for output on the KODAK XL7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer If no file argument is given the standard input is used By default xkpr prints the larg est possible representation of the window on the output page Options allow the user to add headers and trailers specify margins adjust the scale and ori entation and append multiple window dumps to a single output file Output is to standard output unless output is specified Command Options device dev Specifies the device on which the file will be printed The printer currently supported is kodak KODAK XL 7700 Digital Continuous Tone Printer Scale scale Affects the size of the window on the page The KODAK printer is able to translate each bit in a win dow pixel map into a grid of a specified size For ex ample each bit might translate into a 3x3 grid This would be specified by scale 3 By default a window is printed with the lowest density that will fit onto the page for the specified orientation height inches Specifies the maximum height of the page in inches width inches Specifies the maximum width of the page in inches left inches Specifies the left margin in inches Fractions are al lowed By default the window is centered on the page top inches Specifies the top margin for the picture in inches Fractions are allowed header st
5. ring Specifies a header string to be printed above the window Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 3 traller string landscape portrait plane number gray 2 3 4 rv compact Qutput filename append filename noff split n psfig density dpi Cutoff level noposition gamma correction render algorithm Slide filename Specifies a trailer string to be printed below the window Forces the window to be printed in landscape mode By default a window is printed such that its longest side follows the long side of the paper Forces the window to be printed in portrait mode By default a window is printed such that its longest side follows the long side of the paper This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr Specifies an output filename If this option is not specified standard output is used Specifies a filename previously produced by xkpr to which the window is to be appended When specified in conjunction with append the current window will appear on the same page as the previous window This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr This has no effect Included for compatibility with xpr Indicates the dot per inch density to be used by the KODAK printer This has no effect Included for
6. t is provided by MIT and has been modified to know about the special format for the KODAK XL 7700 Printer Following is a sample command line xwd xkpr options lpr Pkodak This is done in UNIX fashion that requires user input and interaction Print screen or print window buttons do not exist on the system Users can add these features by using Motif and some customization files For custom applications you will have to use the X interface to dump an X window to the printer Of course it is always possible for the application to execute those commands on behalf of the user and this would produce a print window button for that application CDRS Interface A print window interface function is available for CDRS applications It per forms the same function as xwd above but it doesn t require user interaction This function allows CDRS to specify which window it wants to print and what part of that window to print on the KODAK XL 7700 Printer Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 xkpr Name Synopsis Description xkpr print an ESV X window dump xkpr device dev scale scale height inches width Inches left inches top inches header string trailer string landscape portrait plane number gray rv compact output filename append filename noff split n psfig density dpi cutoff level noposition gamma correct
7. wo things have to be done First the remote machine s name must be put into the etc hosts equiv file on the machine with the printer Second the remote ma chine s etc printcap file must have a remote printer entry added for the BSD line printer There is an example entry for the line printer or postscript printer that can be modified for use Following is an example entry for a remote KODAK XL 7700 Printer cp kodak Kodak Color Printer lp rm machinename sd usr spool 1p 1f usr adm kodak log af usr adm kodak acct All that remains is to make sure that the BSD printer daemon is running on each machine The BSD Ipd command is used to enable the printer dae mon Refer to the manual page for more information kodak Ropax lor Paste VG DERG ADEN dg devfnuu 150 usw stool le gt MP fuse lade kedan los GR 2 Jusr adm Kodekacct oh of lose fete Kodandriver Kodak Printer User s Manual 2 0 1 X Interface Under the X Window System xwd and xkpr are used to grab the image of a window and print it on the KODAK XL 7700 Printer xwd allows you to point the cursor and click on the window of choice xwd will then grab the visible contents of the window format it into a special form and send it to stdout which can be sent to a file using UNIX redirection xkpr takes the output of xwd and turns it into a format suitable for Ipr to accept and print xkpr is an X to printer translation program I
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