> > I don't know that "mod" is the word, but that's kind of how drivers for > wireless NICs used to work - there was a wrapper for the binary blobs. As > you may imagine, this was far feom optimal and only worked some of the > time. > You are talking about "ndiswrapper" which is a great piece of software. But that is for NICs, as far as I can tell. Dee, CUPS is what would have drivers for most printers. If it is a postscript printer things can be easier, and a networked post-script printer is most likely the best for use with Linux and CUPS. In the old days of early CUPS, and this may be the case today, you needed a "filter" to send printer-specific commands to a given printer so as to print anything. CUPS runs on your Linux, or other server, and the filter is installed in that CUPS configuration. And you just print. Ubuntus tend to have all this crap ready to go. Nothing wrong with virtualizing a Linux if you want to do that; great suggestion.