http://global.epson.com/technology/driver.htm#printer
they have created a open source driver model for epson printers. commonized language. supporting epson printers looks fiarly easy compared to alot of other devices. If someone is willing to help me I would gladly work on this.
It would probably better if you posted this on the development mailing list or perhaps even the printing architecture list:
http://www.freelists.org/list/haiku-development
http://www.freelists.org/list/open-beos-printing
Good luck!
Here we go:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6573
…and here too: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8543
[quote=forart.it]Here we go:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6573
…and here too: http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8543[/quote]
thanx for starting the ticket… To me it would seem to be the best way to get a broad swath of printer coverage and alot of people have epson printers. They also cover alot of epson printers under that protocal.Alot of the epson printers are networkable. I have several and a few HP’s and a brother laser. I am gonna start rounding up printer support docs. Its one of the biggest hold back to haiku along with a few other things.
I fail to see where did you see that Epson made this library open source:
Development kit with source code and development support available for partners.
AFAICT, one must contact Epson to become a partner.
To me, it sounds like pay-and-be-under-NDA-to-use-our-new-tech.
But maybe I’m just a pessimist, and Epson actually saw the open source light the same day BroadCom did for his wifi N chips.
Who want to contact Epson on Haiku project behaf? A english native/fluent will be better suited for such task. Yes, that’s mean “not me” :-).
[quote=phoudoin]I fail to see where did you see that Epson made this library open source:
Development kit with source code and development support available for partners.
AFAICT, one must contact Epson to become a partner.
To me, it sounds like pay-and-be-under-NDA-to-use-our-new-tech.
But maybe I’m just a pessimist, and Epson actually saw the open source light the same day BroadCom did for his wifi N chips.
Who want to contact Epson on Haiku project behaf? A english native/fluent will be better suited for such task. Yes, that’s mean “not me” :-).[/quote]
One of the project developers with a haiku email adress would be the most likely to get a response.
If the costs are not crazy high maybe we could do a fund raiser. its not in the interest of epson to charge to make their hardware work however.
Contact Epson and Got information and a name for the prjects managers regarding open source. Forwarded Info to Andrew to give to ticket owner.