Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Drivers for Sharp BP20M31

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 04:24:17PM +0300, Efe Edizer via Gimp-print-devel wrote:
> I am in desperate need for a working Mac driver for my Sharp printer 
> as the manufacturer supplied ones do not work (installs, print job 
> disappears without error) and they likely are trying to exort money 
> from me to buy a PS license.

Postscript would alleviate all need for a manufacturer driver, as you 
can then use the Sharp-supplied PPD directly with CUPS.

That said, the printer does claim support for PCL6 as well, so you 
should be able to just use a generic PCL6 driver that supports 
large-format prints (ie 11x17"), such as Gutenprint's "Generic PCL 6 LF 
Printer wide margin".  That should get you the abilit to at least print 
properly, but anything unique to your model (eg additional input bin 
selection, and whatever else it does) probably won't work.

> Could you please help me with this issue?

Gutenprint's PCL driver hasn't seen any meaningful work since 2018.  
What exists today is likely all there ever will be.

But perhaps more importantly, for years now, we haven't had anyone with 
the technical _ability_ (much less the necessary skills) to produce a 
native MacOS package, much less one that runs properly on post-10.14 
Macs.

 - Solomon
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