A developer named Kuberwastaken has created a full-fledged macOS driver using Claude Code to bring the HP Laser 1008a series printers back to life. These devices were designed exclusively for Windows, and HP never released working software for them under Apple's system. The developer was helped by the AI assistant Claude Code to write the necessary code.
A developer named Kuberwastaken has created a full-fledged macOS driver using Claude Code to bring the HP Laser 1008a series printers back to life. These devices were designed exclusively for Windows, and HP never released working software for them under Apple's system. The developer was helped by the AI assistant Claude Code to write the necessary code.
A developer from India shared his project on GitHub .
The HP Laser line of models (specifically the 1003, 1006, and 1008) are essentially rebranded Samsung printers with SPL3 technology. They don't support standard protocols (like AirPrint or PostScript), so the Mac simply doesn't "see" them as a full-fledged printing device.
To get around the limitations, the developer used HP's original decoder for Linux and packaged it into a compact Linux container. This container runs in the background and broadcasts print commands over USB.
Thanks to this, the Mac perceives the device as a regular printer: you can print from any application using the standard Cmd+P key combination without using the command line during daily work.
Configuring the driver is very simple and only takes one time: the user just needs to have the Homebrew package manager installed, open the Terminal application, paste the special command from GitHub, and enter their Mac password for confirmation. After that, the system will automatically configure everything, the device will appear in the list under the name "HP Laser 1008a", and you can immediately print from it from any application using the standard Cmd-P key combination.
After a post about the project went viral on the X network, the developer described Claude Code's role in detail .
AI assistant Claude Code acted as a full-fledged co-developer who, together with the author, went through the entire complex technical path to solve the problem.
"It all started with 'install drivers', then the universal driver hung on the connection to the device, then we figured out the printing language from the printed error pages of the printer itself, bypassed the USB sandbox in macOS to interact directly with the device, ran the real HP rastertospl codec in a Linux container to create a real SPL3, configured a background daemon that is resistant to reboots, and finally released a ready-made installer with an MIT license that runs with a single command."
— Kuber (@kuberwastaken) August 19, 2026
Now the driver works so well that it allows you to "print from macOS on Apple Silicon as if it were a regular printer. Press CMD-P in any program and you're done. No terminal, no additional scripts for each print."
