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Old 04-13-2004, 10:50 AM   #1
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Creating new Printer Driver


What steps would I need to take if I wanted to write a printer driver for a Lexmark X5150 under Linux. Taking into account:

1) I haven't got any real C or C++ skills (so okay - I get this first)

Then what would I need to do?

Let's call this a trial by fire project...

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Cheers.
 
Old 04-13-2004, 01:56 PM   #2
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"What steps would I need to take if I wanted to write a printer driver for a Lexmark X5150 under Linux."

It would take an entire book to explain what to do. So here is the book:

http://www.oreilly.de/openbook/ldd/chapter/book/

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Old 04-13-2004, 03:25 PM   #3
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thought as much

and that curt reply says it all.

Cheers. Looks like more late nights ahead...but honestly, thanks for the tip mate!

neil
 
  


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