[Openicc] Epson HTM CUPS drivers

[Robert Krawitz]

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.