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Easy Software Products

Easy Software Products was the vendor who originally invented CUPS and HTMLDOC software. It was founded near Washington, D.C. in 1993 and was located in Morgan Hill, California. ESP sold CUPS to Apple Inc. in 2007, but still developed and sold its HTMLDOC software until its closure.

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Easy Software Products
Industrysoftware
Founded1993
FounderMichael Sweet
Defunct1 December 2011
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
ProductsCUPS (Common Unix Printing System)
HTMLDOC software
Websiteeasysw.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2005-02-04)

Easy Software Products was the vendor who originally invented CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) and HTMLDOC software. It was founded near Washington, D.C. in 19931 and was located in Morgan Hill, California. ESP sold CUPS to Apple Inc. in 2007, but still developed and sold its HTMLDOC software until its closure.

The company was shut down on December 1, 2011.2

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  1. Michael R. Sweet, "CUPS: Common UNIX Printing System", The Evolution of CUPS Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. SAMS Publishing.
  2. "Easy Software Products". www.easysw.com. Archived from the original on 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2026-04-12.
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