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From: Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:19:54 -0200
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Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] Contributing braille embosser support
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To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>, printing-architecture@lists.linux-foundation.org

On 12/10/2015 07:31 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Till Kamppeter, on Thu 10 Dec 2015 19:02:03 -0200, wrote:
>> OK, thanks. So please go ahead with the fixes.
>
> Here is an updated tarball.
>

Thank you very much. I will look into it.

> BTW, which licence would it be better to release this code under?  I'm
> fine with most free software licences.
>

I think MIT would be best.

>> And I am also grateful if you do the maintenance of your code when it is in
>> cups-filters as I do not know much about Braille embossers and also do not
>> have such a device available to me.
>
> Sure!  That's what I planned.  I'll probably try to contact other
> braille embossers manufacturers to get protocol or even devices. Index
> is very common in Europe, so it is good enough for a start.
>

Great.

>> How are Braille embossers connected and how do they appear for the computer?
>> Do they work with the standard usb/parallel/socket/ipp backends of CUPS?
>
> Yes, they really look like usual printers.  Just configuring them as
> generic text printers would work for instance.  In the case of Index
> embossers, they have serial, USB (line-printer interface), and network
> (HP JetDirect) support.
>

OK, then no new backends are needed.

    Till