backend/easysw-firewire-linux.txt

   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.