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>>Would your driver work with all Linux CAD packages, or just one ?
If it is designed like a regular printer driver, you should be able to use any application that supports printing.
Raster...

Well it has been almost 2 years and still no Linux printer drivers for laser engraving.

Will Leetro make an open source printer driver?
I am guessing no.

With old versions of RedHat OS, you can still install the software on a PC that supports it and on as many PCs as you wish.

With Microsoft XP you can only legally install one copy and
beginning...

I agree

It looks like the LAOS folks have already gone down this path.

LAOS CUPS driver - LAOS Laser - LAOS - Laser Open Source

LAOS CUPS driver

This page describes the CUPS printer driver...

It would be nice if the big companies would help fund an open source initiative.

What type of Laser do you have?
I assume you have some type of Windows driver for the laser.

Does the Laser...

I have a K40 laser that I would also like to upgrade.


Does the DSP require special hardware like a dongle or special software like drivers etc.
or can you drive the DSP with say GCode i.e....

I like this idea, since Inkscape is open source and LAOS is open hardware.

I guess you would rather spend money on Software and Hardware upgrades when ever Microsoft decides to end support for your version of Windows.
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With Linux there is no issue with updates being free.
Most of the code is open source and always available.
Also the software is not locked to a particular computer, so you can move your software...

End of Main Stream support for Windows 7 is ending soon ==> Jan 13, 2015


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Here is one of the reasons I prefer Linux over Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-support.aspx

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What is end of support?

After...

Here is one of the reasons I prefer to develop for Linux vs Microsoft:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enterprise/end-of-support.aspx

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What is end of...

Wow, still no comments, with 80+ views of this thread.

I guess no one is interested in Linux or even open source Windows drivers.

I was thinking about funding the development in time blocks, starting off with a 6 month develpment cycle and adding 3 month blocks each time funding passed a certain level.

Unfortunately, most...

I use to work at IBM/Lexmark several years ago on OS2 printer and Win NT printer drivers.
I have been thinking about writing some open source linux drivers (GPL or BSD style license).

I figure it...

1) Are there any Linux based printer drivers for any laser engraving machines?

2) If not is any one else out there interested in this?

3) Which laser machines?

Hello, my name is Tim Krimm.
I have worked at a small machine shop for the last 3 years.
I originally started there to test out a failure/wear prediction product, but funding ran out before the...