Re: [Gimp-print-devel] any plan to support HP Officejet J3508?

[Surf C. <sur...@gm...>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Robert Krawitz <rl...@al...> wrote:
>   Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:26:40 +0800
>   From: Surf Chen <sur...@gm...>
>
>   Is there any plan to support HP Officejet J3508?
>
>   I bought this printer today, but cannot find any driver in Mac
>   osx. If there is no plan to support this printer, I want to write
>   one this year, when I have time. I familiar with cocoa and obj-c
>   but don't have driver development experience. Any suggestion?
>
> We don't have any plans to.  We don't currently have a maintainer for
> the PCL driver.
>
> You might want to check the HPIJS driver
> (http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html) -- it's possible
> that that driver supports the printer.
>
I found this driver(http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/officejet/officejet_j3500_series.html),
it is what I want. But the hplip is linux-only. And I found the macosx
version of hpijs
here(http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/MacOSX/hpijs), but
there is no such driver(J3500 series) in the hpijs.

> If not (and assuming that this is a PCL printer), the appropriate
> thing to do would be to modify the existing PCL driver to add support
> for this printer.  But, I would check HPIJS first.
>
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