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Re: Wonderful!
by Jon on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @07:10

One of the reason Epson inkjets and decent HP laserjets are well supported is that they speak a command language (ESC/P / PCL). Write a driver for that command language, and you support all the printers which understand it. Similar to having a modem which understands the AT command set.

The problem is that many cheap modern printers are 'winprinters'. Just like with 'winmodems', they have stripped out of all the complicated electronics, and make the computer do all the processing. This makes writing drivers for them much much more compilicated.

Do a bit of research the next time you are buying a product, to check that it isn't a crippled 'winproduct'.

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Re: Wonderful!
by Andreas on Thursday 06/Dec/2001, @07:44

personly I never buy hardware without linux support ... the printer isnt mine

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