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Alps MD-1000
Color thermal transfer printer, max. 1200x600 dpi, works Perfectly
Recommended driver: ppmtomd (Home page, view PPD, download PPD) Generic instructions for: CUPS, LPD, LPRng, PPR, PDQ, no spooler

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Edited Notes

J.C. Bradfield (jcb@dcs.ed.ac.uk) has written a fully functional driver which converts PPM files ("ppmtomd"). He started hacking ghostscript, but abandoned it.

The "md2k" driver is documented only in Japanese.

"md2k" is reported to work, but suffers from some banding and dithering problems. The driver supports all features but metallic, white, or multicolour cartridges.

User Notes

To use the ppmtomd PPD under RedHat 9.0, you'll need to download and compile
the ppmtomd driver, and install foomatic-rip from source. This requires the
netpbm-devel package, and you may want to just copy foomatic-rip into
/usr/lib/cups/filters manually. It handles white cartridges just fine, using
the "Dont't Care" color-mode general setup option.general opinion

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