[Wine] Problem Running Printer, Can Wine Work for Original Drivers?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 10:49:14 CDT 2011


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:38 AM, eathray <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> eathray wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have an old Pavilion 6535 running Puppy Linux Wary 5.0. I would like to install a Lexmark X2470 print/copy/scan gig on it. Problem is, there is no
>> native driver to run it that I can find. Ordinarily I use Cups for printing and Xsane for scanning, but I can't get either of these to recognize this device.
>>
>> I was wondering if it was possible to use the original Windows driver package under Wine and get this printer working.
>>
> Oops! Wine version 1.1.39
>
First, Wine cannot support Native Windows Drivers for any device.
This is not permitted with the way that drivers function.
Second, that version of Wine is VERY old.  Is there a particular
reason you are using it and can you update to the current development
version of Wine?

James McKenzie



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