Open source driver - Windows XP

[Alan Pope]

Hi Michael,

On 19 June 2010 15:55, Michael <mmorse757 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I bought an HP 6110 printer/scanner from the thrift store in excellent
> condition and it works fine with the Ubuntu drivers.

Hurrah!

> 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?
>

Smaller than I've experienced recently. I think the full driver set
for my printer weighs in at around 150MB


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

Nothing like it. But they aren't comparable. The HP Windows drivers
tend to bundle lots of additional software in the package, so it's not
just a driver in the traditional sense

> 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 might be able to use the ppd files from the open source driver
with windows somehow, never tried though.

Cheers,
Al.