Lack of printer driver support - Enhancment suggestion
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gutenprint (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
We all know that most printer manufacturers are very bad at supporting their hardware under *nix. Even though HP provides some support you would never know it from the sales web site, and what support it does offer provides much lower resolutions than can be had under MS operating systems. Lexmark and Cannon are worse.
What we need, and what I do not have the wits to write, is something similar to the NDIS wrapper for network cards. Some derivative of the wine project, perhaps, that creates a compatible api in a sand box so that the shipped windows driver can be run and convinced it is running on XP. Then an interface from that to ghostscript, and sane, so that *nix applications can be run and print as normal, but some of these cheap-and-cheerful win printers can be used for output.
We need someone clever and well funded - oh look, I am already using Ubuntu - to come up with such a solution. I'd do it if I could, but I fit neither criterion.
I'm afraid I can't find a button for enhancement requests, so have put that in the title.
| Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| madbiologist (me-again) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gutenprint (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
5 years later and HP printers are well supported under Linux. So are EPSON printers. Canon printers are still not great, but have improved somewhat. I get the impression that Brother printers are OK too, but not as good as HP or EPSON. I wouldn't expect much from Lexmark.
Closing bug as HP is now well supported. Any remaining problems would be best filed as new bugs with details on the exact Ubuntu version and exact printer make and model, and with a CUPS error_log and captured print job data as per https:/