[Gimp-print-devel] Support for Olivetti inkjet printers

[Raffaele T. <raf...@gm...>]

Dear GIMP-Print developers,

I have been using your drivers for years on Linux, and had a great
experience with them. Unfortunately a printer I own (Olivetti MY_WAY) seems
to be completely unsupported, but thankfully I could get the PPD files from
an old OS X driver and they look very simple at a first glance.

This is the exact model I own, from a family of probably very similar
printers driver-wise:
https://web.archive.org/web/20070420013344/http://www.olivetti.com/Site/Public/product.asp?sid=&cid=255&iid=440

And this is the Mac OS PPD file of my model, re-uploaded by myself:
https://gitlab.com/cunidev/olivetti-my-way-linux/-/blob/master/ppd-osx-driver/olmw.ppd

As I have zero experience with writing printer drivers at the moment, could
you tell me how difficult it would be for this printer (which means
probably its whole family) to become supported, according to its specs/PPD
etc., and, in case you believe it would be possible with reasonable effort,
if there is anything like a porting guide for new devices I could start
from?

Thank you.

All the best,
Raffaele T.