Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:33:11 +0100 (CET) | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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 --- "Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes." Friedrich Nietzsche
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