No driver, no problem devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only printer

Date:
Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:05:00 +0000

Description:
Developer uses Claude Code to create driver for the HP Laser 1008a, a 2023 printer that has Windows and Linux drivers, but no macOS driver until now.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter India-based developer Kuber Mehta uses Claude Code to create a macOS driver for the HP Laser 1008a Previously, only the official drivers for Windows and Linux were available
for the relatively obscure 2023 laser printer The AI-generated driver was created over a series of meticulous prompts, and is now available via GitHub The days of avoiding hardware that is incompatible with your operating system could be over. A developer based in India has created a macOS driver for a largely unknown HP printer using Claude Code , the agentic command-line
coding tool developed by Anthropic.

Released in 2023, the HP Laser 1008a was issued with drivers for Windows and Linux, but not macOS. By using AI to generate a driver for macOS, developer Kuber Mehta has demonstrated that incompatible hardware could soon be a thing of the past. Mehta has shared the code on GitHub and has also posted about
the process on social media, and also compiled a transcript of the exchange, which has been published online for reference. Latest Videos From TechRadar Watch full video here: HPs Samsung printer just Claude writing a MacOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows support pic.twitter.com/ORjLugJiRF August 17, 2026 Describing the issue in the introduction to the transcript, Mehta explains that the HP Laser 1008a is a rebadged Samsung , host-based printer that speaks a proprietary raster language (SPL3), and it has no macOS driver and no AirPrint.

No SPL3 drivers have been published for macOS previously, so the process relied on a conversation with Claude Code and reference to the Windows and Linux drivers. You may like Is this the open source printer of our dreams? Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? Claude will now hide an invisible watermark inside ordinary words

The GitHub intro adds that the HP Laser 1008a and siblings in the series
(1003 and 1006 a/w) have another problem: They do not speak PostScript or
PCL. Anyone familiar with the world of printer drivers will recognize the challenge faced by Mehta, which makes the use of Claude Code even more impressive.

Using Claude Code with the Opus 4.8 model, the driver was compiled in 30-40 prompts. This might have been even quicker had the AI not made various assertions that required correcting. Are you a pro? Subscribe to our newsletter Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed! Contact me
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The process moved through install the drivers to establishing the print language by analysing the printers error pages, via direct contact with the device and running HP's real rastertospl codec inside a Linux container to produce genuine SPL3, to a reboot-safe background daemon.

From here, Mehta and Claude Code moved to the published, MIT-licensed installer, which patches the macOS open-source printer driver package SpliX, adding support for the SPL3 printers (by default, SpliX handles SPL2 and SPLc drivers). Building from AI While already a developer, Kuber Mehta admitted learning about macOS drivers from the process, perhaps an unforeseen benefit of using generative AI tools for coding.

The GitHub repo outlines some revisions that have been made to the initial release, which is now a tiny native IOKit helper that dispenses with Python, pyusb, and libusb and can be swiftly installed from the Terminal. Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.



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