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f7deaa1a | 1 | Easy Software Products |
2 | 44141 Airport View Drive | |
3 | Suite 204 | |
4 | Hollywood, Maryland 20636 | |
5 | +1.301.373.9600 | |
6 | March 8, 2002 | |
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9 | Subject: EPSON Firewire Printer Driver for Linux | |
10 | ||
11 | Currently, no Firewire printer support exists for Linux. Since | |
12 | the latest EPSON printer products depend on the Firewire | |
13 | interface to print at full speed, a solution is needed to | |
14 | support customers using Linux as their server platform. | |
15 | ||
16 | The Linux Firewire subsystem provides a user-mode driver | |
17 | interface that allows driver programs to access Firewire | |
18 | devices. Easy Software Products will utilize this interface to | |
19 | develop a "backend" program for the Common UNIX Printing System | |
20 | that will allow users to print to EPSON printers using the | |
21 | Firewire interface. | |
22 | ||
23 | After examining the Linux interface, we estimate that it will | |
24 | require approximately 30 hours of development time to write, | |
25 | test, and document the Firewire backend, for a total cost of | |
26 | $3,000. The new backend will become a standard part of the CUPS | |
27 | software distribution and will be included with at least the | |
28 | following Linux distributions: | |
29 | ||
30 | - Caldera Linux | |
31 | - Mandrake Linux | |
32 | - Red Hat Linux | |
33 | - SuSE Linux | |
34 | ||
35 | ESP will provide EPSON with binaries for Red Hat Linux 7.2. |