> > When Hewlett Packard(tm) actually sunk so low as to design and sell a
> > "printer", that is not a PRINTER at all, but an electromechanical
> > extension of the "Windows(r)" Operating System, I knew the end was near.
>
> More myths. The HP printers do _not_ implement anything windows specific
> as has been demonstrated now that people have cracked the protocols. They
> want arbitary host side processing to feed it bands of bitmapped data
> and pacing information. Those printers could have gone out with 'Designed
> for Ghostscript' labels on them too. The only problem was HP being anal
> about the protocol they use.
And what about the Oki GDI printers? Don't they implement the GDI printer
APIs?
later, marek
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