On 11/19/2016 11:31 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Brian wrote:
I'd like to know that, too. I need a new home color printer, my
10-year-old HP PhotoSmart (blobless) MFP has finally broken down and
good second-hand parts are not easy to find in Brazil :-(
Why is it important for the printer to be blobless? Look at it this way:
Are we talking about printer firmware, or host-cpu device drivers?
All of your reply is only relevant for device firmware (runs in the
device). But I thought this was about a binary-only driver blob that
runs in the host OS ? Or did I misunderstand?
I'm pretty sure it's a host-cpu device driver.
http://hplipopensource.com/node/309
Yeah, if it ran only in the device, I'd be okay with it.