[Openicc] Epson HTM CUPS drivers

[Chris Murphy]

On Feb 7, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:49:56 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
>> I just received an email from a friend and it appears the cost of
>> the HTMs is free even for commercial products, but yes very closed
>> and lots of agreements to sign. So that is not compatible, probably,
>> with an open source solution if the idea is that it must be 100%
>> open, rather than 90% open except for this little black box that
>> gets us ESC/P. Maybe it would have to be a separate shareware
>> project to make it worth someone's effort.
> 
> With lots of agreements to sign, I suspect it would be very hard for
> most Linux distributions to handle.

I guess it would need to be separate from a distribution. It would need to be shareware or a commercial product. So there are drawbacks for sure, but advantages as well. I don't know how it would play out. It would be great to be able to reuse the profiles based on these HTMs thought. There are a lot of them for 3rd party papers, not just Epson's. They're everywhere.


Chris Murphy