http://xmodulo.com/linux-vs-windows-device-driver-model.html
Device drivers are parts of the operating system that facilitate usage of hardware devices via certain programming interface so that software applications can control and operate the devices. As each driver is specific to a particular operating system, you need separate Linux, Windows, or Unix device drivers to enable the use of your device on different computers.
In this article we will compare Windows and Linux device drivers and explore the differences in terms of their architecture, APIs, build development, and distribution, in hopes of providing you with an insight on how to start writing device drivers for each of these operating systems.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Coding A Custom Driver For The Adafruit Mini Thermal Printer
https://hackaday.com/2021/06/26/coding-a-custom-driver-for-the-adafruit-mini-thermal-printer/
Thermal printers are cool… or, uh, warm actually. They use heat to make images, so they never need ink and they print on receipt rolls. The thermal printer available from Adafruit is a particularly tasty example, as it comes fully documented for the budding hacker. [Ed] is one such person, who set about writing his own driver to use the hardware with Linux on a Raspberry Pi.
The project came about as [Ed] didn’t like the halftone output from the standard Adafruit CUPS driver. Thus, a dithering-capable driver was needed instead.
https://deathandthepenguinblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/08/adafruit-mini-thermal-printer-part-1-getting-better-pictures/