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>    E> I'm playing around with a program that controls a small "design
>    E> cutter" - it's basically a plotter that connects via the parallel
>    E> port.
>
>    E> There is some Windows CAD software that knows about the plotter and
>    E> sends commands to it, as far as I can tell in one of two ways:
>
>    E> 1) Through a printer driver. It doesn't seem too bothered about the
>    E> details of the driver though. I'm assuming that one would normally
>    E> use a generic, text-only Windows driver. This method, apparently,
has
>    E> the advantage of the driver buffering the output
>
> Wine can't run Ring 0 drivers, like something ending in .sys/ .vxd

The plotter doesn't need a specific driver - it doesn't even have one. In
Windows it uses any old printer driver just to open the printer port, then
sends commands to the plotter through the printer driver.

Should it not be possible to do this with Wine? Possibly not with CUPS
though...