[ Thanks to Michael
Sweet for this press release. ]
Hollywood, MD (August 10, 1999) — Easy Software Products today
announced the second beta release of ESP Print Pro, a completely
new printing solution for UNIX®. The new product is based on
the company’s Common UNIX Printing System technology and supports
Digital UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, and Solaris.
ESP Print Pro Beta 2 adds drivers for the ALPS MD-series and
EPSON Stylus Color 740, Stylus Color 900, Stylus Photo 750, Stylus
Photo 1200, and Stylus Photo 9000 printers. The release also
corrects a number of core software bugs, adds support for remote
Windows and IPP printers, adds a new PDF file printing filter, and
provides a much more friendly install/uninstall process.
ESP Print Pro is a complete printing solution that prints
international text, Adobe® PostScript®, PDF, HP-GL/2,
GIF(SM), TIFF, PNG, JPEG/JFIF, SGI RGB, Sun® Raster,
PhotoCD(TM), PBM, PGM, and PPM files transparently to over 1500
printers via serial, parallel, and network connections. ESP Print
Pro is based on the Common UNIX Printing System and provides
PostScript and image file RIPs to support non-PostScript
printers.
Easy Software Products is a six year old small business that
produces printing, document management, Internet, and computer
graphics solutions for UNIX and Microsoft Windows®. ESP
software is sold by nearly 40 distributors in over 80 countries
worldwide. Additional information on Easy Software Products and ESP
Print Pro can be found at http://www.easysw.com/printpro.
Information on the Common UNIX Printing System can be found at
http://www.cups.org.