[Openicc] Re: Hello *and* (was): LINUX, Gutenprint / CUPS / Color policies

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 16:33 -0700, Hal V Engel wrote:

> 
> 1. Most major printer manufacturers do not supply ANY drivers for their 
> printers for open source systems.  The available drivers are supplied by 
> third parties such as the guten-print project.  So if we decide that some 
> functionality belongs in the print driver we do not have to wait for Epson or 
> HP or whoever to implement those changes in their non-existant drivers.  All 
> we have to do is convince the guten-print team that this is needed.

To pick a nit, HP does provide drivers for Linux almost all of our
printers.  They certainly don't do much in the way of color management,
however.

				Regards,
					- Jim