John, in fact if the driver can be hacked, the separated dots of the ink could be "adjusted" thru the color profile... thus, except that the dots are now coarser (further apart) than original, since the resolution is sacrificed for the larger width, otherwse it shud look fine if proportional is rite...
BUTTT, there's a problem with the acceleration and velocity of the printhead carriage! the speed is not constant from start to the other end and so forth, thus, the ink being jetted out with another speed (controlled by the board, higher voltage faster the ink flies). these 2 elements (carriage n ink speeds) have to b tuned correctly to avoid distortion or misalignment "vertically" (vertical banding prob..). this is the speed profile which has to be synchronized very well in order to produce correct printout to our eyes...
As for the driver hacking, i have been thinking, ya.. thinking... about the available linux open source stuffs... i hv taken a peep on these open source driver n it looks like possible to change the width, color profile and mayb speed as well... not very sure yet.. any LINUX EXPERT here to guide for this driver thingy? well, i m targeting at Epson inkjet since piezoelectric printhead has more practical uses compared to other brand of small printer like hp, canon, lexmark etc etc.... which r the stpid bubblejet.... sensitive with ink type...
MAX_imum2000, xaar is pretty coarse and oso costly as well... while encad is the bubblejet which is not very flexible with most of the ink... piezo choice left for epson only, since it's widely avail n cheap... forget bout roland, mutoh and mimaki... these r expensive toy n they'r oredi built in large format, no need for modification...any more suggstion?  |