=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This is experimental support for EVOLIS Dualys 3 printer with black ribbon (K) to provide
-pixel-exact driver with support for two-side printing.
+This is experimental support for EVOLIS Dualys 3 printer with black ribbon (K)
+to provide pixel-exact driver with support for two-side printing.
-Existing cups driver available at
+Existing cups driver is available at
L<http://www.evolis.com/eng/Drivers-Support/Product-support/Dualys-3>
-does work, but I haven't been able to make it print duplex on cards, especially when generating
-front and back pages separatly.
+but I haven't been able to make it print on both sides of cards,
+partly because using dumplex option in cups seems to segfault GhostScript
+and/or C<rastertoevolis> cups filter depending on combination of duplex
+options.
+
+I also needed pixel perfect transfer to printer, and cups
+bitmap format is always in color, leaving final pixel modifications down
+to cups filter which always produced differences between file sent to
+printer and perfect black and white rendition of it.
=head1 SCRIPTS
Current toolset consists of following scripts:
-=head2 scripts/inkscape-render.pl card/template.svg 201008159999 Name Surname
+=head2 scripts/inkscape-render.pl card/template.svg 201008159999 login Name Surname
Generate pdf files from Inkscape SVG template in C<card/> using
C<print-front> and C<print-back> object IDs. Layers doesn't work
Simulator for EVOLIS printer commands which is useful for development.
It creates one pbm file per page printed.
+=head2 scripts/evolis-command.pl
+
+Command-line interface to send commands to printer and receive responses.
+Supports readline for editing and history.
+Requires local parallel port connection, probably to USB parallel device.
+
=head1 EXAMPLE
Following is simple walk-through from svg image in Inkscape to
projects / Printer-EVOLIS.git / blobdiff