Re: [Printing-user-general] Why has nothing changed?

Perhaps Okidata does not see Linux as a platform worthy of support.

Glendon Gross wrote:
> Well,   I recently bought a Okidata C3200 color laser.  Windows printing
> is excellent, and the vendor supplied driver
> works well under OS X.   After repeated failures to print to it from
> Suse Linux 8.2, even after installing the latest CUPS, I  finally called
> Okidata for support.  The support technician from Okidata explained that
> their engineers were able to write a driver
> for OS X, but don't have plans to release a Linux driver.  So the end
> result is that for this particular non-postscript printer,
> Linux support is non existent.   Consequently I have to praise Apple for
> supplying Okidata with the hooks that they needed
> to write a working driver for OS X.   The driver uses Gimp-print, and I
> was unable to port it to linux.

Did the technician from Okidata say that their engineers tried to write a
driver for Linux, but failed, or that they will not even try?