This is why I like it here. Somebody does irrefutably incredible work outside of their comfort zone, and somebody else goes "yeah actually I was born in that zone. Moulded by it. Here's how to improve it" (in a positive way)
replyOh no, I wasn't, and that's definitely not my comfort zone. I mess with the printers and printing stack due to anger, not because I like it.
replyIt's bugs on bugs, with bugs chasing bugs! So little developers, so complex stack with 25 years of technical debt, and little community around because it's not a sexy technology to be involved in.
That's why I have to dive deep and fix my bugs myself if I want to make it work properly as I would like it to. I also ended up making my own print server device, because China did not make a proper one for some reason for all these years.
Hey sadly this stuff doesn't ask for consent when it makes you an expert. Everybody hates printers, only a few make their own print server device
replyAnger is the only valid emotion when dealing with printers.
replyPC Load Letter?
replyThat's even cooler
replySame feeling when family or friends ask me for help with Micros word about formatting, tables or inserting pictures in the last 25 years….
replylovely, this would save me a bunch of memory during transformation and dithering. Will do!
reply> Use `print-color-mode-{supported,default}=bi-level` instead of `monochrome` for that
replyThe last time I checked (a year ago), 1bpp was suddenly supported only by Windows. IIRC, monochrome is REQUIRED, while bi-level is OPTIONAL in RFC.
Not sure how things stand now, though. Ever since then, I've just been carrying Floyd–Steinberg dithering around.