On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 14:31:49 -0200, 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?
Both. Although, admittedly, I concentrated on firmware. > 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? Knowing the printer model would bring some focus to the matter. We are both right but each of us has looked at two different aspects of the plugin model. -- Brian.
