Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

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sdrave
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Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

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Hi, I am trying TurboPrint 2.46 on Debian Stretch with my ET-7700. Everything seems to work nicely except that I am unable to get the printer to use the photo tray (cassette 1).

The tray is loaded with 10x15 cm Epson Premium Glossy paper and the printer is configured accordingly. However, when I am using the TurboPrint dialog from GIMP to print a photo, the printer always uses the paper loaded in cassette 2 (the image is printed in the right size). This happens both with and without borderless printing. Selecting 'cassette 1' instead of 'auto select' as paper feed has no influence either.
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

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Hello, can you please enable the "preview jobs" option in TurboPrint Monitor and verify the tray setting in TurboPrint Monitor before the page is printed?
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

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Hi, sorry for the late reply. Somehow didn't receive an email notification.

Here are the settings I have used for printing:
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These settings resulted in the following output in the turboprint monitor:
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If I set the feed to Cassette 2, I also get 'Feed = Cassette 2' in the monitor. In both cases, the printer uses the A4 paper loaded in tray 2, on which it prints the image in the correct dimensions (10x15cm).
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by zedonet »

Hello,

does it work with "Borderless 4x6"?

The Epson Windows driver only offers the slightly larger 4x6" = 10.16 x 15.24cm paper size. Maybe the printer doesn't allow 10x15cm for Cassette 1.
sdrave
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by sdrave »

Same behavior with 4"x6", unfortunately.
b81
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by b81 »

I have the same problem using TurboPrint 2.48-2. I enter

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lp -d ET-7700 -o media=Borderless10x15cm -o InputSlot=Cassette1 Image.JPG
TurboPrint Printer Monitor says that cassette 1 will be used, but the printer will use cassette 2.
I tried all 5 values for InputSlot, the printer always uses cassette 2.
Unfortunately, this bug makes TurboPrint unusable for me.
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by b81 »

I compared the output of TurboPrint with the output of Epson's Windows driver. The Windows driver sends 4 remote mode commands in addition to those sent by TurboPrint:
- TI (printer job timer, probably not relevant for the problem at hand)
- PM 00 00 (don't know what this one does)
- US 00 08 00 (user setting)
- DR 00 42 00 00 (drying time)

Strangely, the PP (paper path) command (which selects the paper feed) is the same as the one sent by the Windows driver.

So, probably either "PM 00 00" or "US 00 08 00" would do the trick.

Before I hack those commands manually into the stream: Is there a way I can modify the tpp file to make TurboPrint send those commands?
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

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OK, I patched the output manually. Inserting those PM and US commands doesn't help. Copying the entire block of remote mode commands from the output of the Windows driver also doesn't help.

But there's another block of remote mode commands in the output of the Windows driver. It doesn't look special except for an "HD 00 03 02" command (same values for all input trays).
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by zedonet »

Hello,

I think we finally found the problem (with the help of another customer who read this thread), I will send a new driver file to sdrave and b81.

EDIT: I could't send the new driver file to b81, email undeliverable. Please write if you want to get it (the filx will also be included in the next TurboPrint release).
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Re: Epson ET-7700 photo tray not working

Post by b81 »

I can wait for the next version of TurboPrint as I'm away from my printer for a while.
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