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Update: We're actually fully MacOS native now! https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos

It works with Cmd + P https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089961185047437729

used like $10 of tokens btw :)

"Also some clarification on the "he's just using the linux driver in the VM" - not quite

This is one of the weirdest batch of printers HP made because it's a rebranded Samsung - it "comes" under HP's unified drivers system but specifically has Samsung's printer language so compatibility is extremely messy.

What this version does is take the Linux Unified Driver and extract just the relevant component, rastertospl, basically the codec that turns CUPS raster data into the Samsung SPL format the printer understands. That codec is then wired into macOS’s native CUPS stack, so printing happens through the system like a normal driver. There’s no Linux VM handling the actual print workflow and the entire process basically acting as a driver normally at system level.

In theory, yeah - rastertospl could be reimplemented from scratch. But that would be way more unreliable while turning this from a ~4-hour project into a ~4-day reverse-engineering project, when starting this, I really just wanted a working home printer and running a tiny compatibility applet in Docker just for that codec feels like a pretty reasonable compromise AND I get to not see my mac kernel crash if it messes up.

I didn't expect this to blow up this much lol, so I'll be experimenting with this further and am already in talks with the splix team to sort this specific version out"

Update: I saw a bunch of comments on the post asking how I got Claude to do this

I usually answer saying there's not really a hack for it, you just work with it, convey thoughts decently and try out things with educated guesses until it sticks with these projects.

But I actually went ahead and exported the chat in a readable format for anyone curious enough to go through :) https://cdn.kuber.studio/chat/hp-laser-1008a-driver

Thanks for sharing :)

linking this here for those who don't wanna read the threads https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos

genuinely very interesting case to learn from for me because this was one of the HP branded Samsung printers which doesn't have native non-windows support !

HAHA this is awesome, was a fun read - thanks.

Not sure if I agree with a lot of this, even while spending a lot of time building with LLM, but was interesting nonetheless.

Totally fair, I meant more in the context of coding agents - should've been specific ; I hate heavily AI-designed presentations too.

> In English, a tell is an unconscious physical or verbal sign that reveals what a person is secretly thinking, feeling, or trying to hide.

pretty much what I do, better yet ask it to boil it down in visuals in a simple webpage if it's a very large project

Thanks, I guess haha :P

removed it! The latter should not be happening anymore either hopefully

update: removed it, didn't need it and I use chrome so it didn't pop up haha

thank you, I don't though hahaha

Tested on MacOS, but will try to patch this

Perks of making this deterministic haha will fix, thank you

Yes, probably detected those, including teams haha

Heck yea

LMAO will patch

potato potato haha ; sadly advertisers aren't the only ones tracking us these days

interestingly it makes 0 mentions of any government involvement but does, in fact mention a couple times how the hardware was all self funded.

I'm currently interning and solely spending ~10-20x on AI than my monthly spend as a part of my job (we're getting training rigs too) probably not the best comparison but it's very real haha

Not wanting to shell out $3000+ for a decent MacBook Pro, I wanted to set up my Agents on a VPS through Claude code so I can actually run it well

To my surprise, I found almost no repos covering this decently, so I went through the process and made it a reusable skill

It's MIT licensed and open, would love to hear feedback