Open source driver - Windows XP

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Michael wrote:
> I bought an HP 6110 printer/scanner from the thrift store in excellent 
> condition and it works fine with the Ubuntu drivers.  I took it to a 
> friends house so that he could use the scanner.  We ended having to 
> download the driver (he uses XP) from the HP website - a 34 meg file.  
> This seems rather large to me for some reason.  (I am not really tech 
> savvy - I am more of an end user.)
> 
> a) is this a "normal" size file for a driver?

Nah.


> 
> b) are the Linux open source drivers the same or comparable in size?

Certainly not.


> 
> c) are there open source HP drivers for XP?  (I've googled "open source 
> HP drivers" but all  I get are Linux drivers under open source

You're kidding right?

Anyway, it is 34 mebibytes because it includes software besides the driver.