Projects

Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the ... [More] basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is [Less]

Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-print)

Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for ... [More] Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh. [Less]

Hardware for Linux

Hardware4linux.info is a web site to lookup and report hardware compatibility and incompatibility with Linux distributions.

openbraille

This project only hosts some of the code of a future real project about a Braille Printer. The whole work will be open sourced. We are currently working in the firmware and driver source that is currently pointing to Linux platforms but may be expanded to work on Windows systems too. The target of ... [More] the project is to provide the circuit, pcb, firmware and driver of a braille printer, using the most simple and economics electronic components. So far there is a small prototype working. Further reference will be added in time. [Less]

Virtual Image Printer driver

Virtual ImagePrinter is based on the Microsoft universal printer driver. ImagePrinter can print to file any printable document in your Windows system to the one or many BMP, PNG , JPG, TIFF or PDF files.

Bogatyr

Bogatyr 0.9.6 This Java library contains plenty of helper classes to help you create powerful and high quality applications. For more informations and documentations about the project, please visit our project page.

Printer-EVOLIS

pixel-exact driver for EVOLIS Dualys two-side card printer in perl

Bifrost

"Bifrost" is a "follow me" printing system, specifically aimed at schools. The system queues printing jobs and sends each job to a printer once the job's owner is authenticated at the printer. Benefits include reduced paper consumption, simplified printer configuration on ... [More] client machines, and reduced risk of printouts getting astray. [Less]

Winprint HylaFAX Reloaded

Enhanced version of Winprint HylaFAX. Fully supports Vista / 7 / 8 and 64 bit systems. Can send multiple documents as a single fax. Supports multiple recipients and delayed send. Can read fax numbers from Extended MAPI (Outlook) and ODBC sources. Multilanguage. Terminal Services compliant.

iCopy - Free Photocopier

iCopy lets you combine your scanner and printer into a powerful, but easy to use photocopier by only pressing a button. Its simple user interface lets you manage scanner and printer options, like brightness, contrast, number of copies with a few clicks.