Public bug reported:
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.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Lack of printer driver support - Enhancment suggestion
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/155328
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