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>>     Printer drivers (note 1)

>  Never had a problem with any printers I've used.

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>>   note 1: The Amiga's printer drivers are so bad, they might as well not even
>>be there.  EVERY program that has anything to do with printing bypasses these
>>drivers with it's own drivers, so why are they there?  A person could delete
>>the entire devs:printers directory, and programs like Final Copy, PageStream,
>>WordPerfect, etc.. would still work fine.

>    I have 1 printer, I delete all other drivers. Works perfectly.
>    Your EVERY is wrong. I use text editors and data plotting programs
>      that use the PRT: device. Often draft copies use PRT: device.
>    Yes you could delete devs:printers but ALOT or programs would not
>      be able to print. Anything directed to PRT: would be gone.
>      Ever do quick text dumps to the printer?
>      PageStream stores it's drivers in devs:printers, as do most others,
>      so PageStream would not work. :)

	I'll confirms this.  In the time I've owned Amigas (from the March
following the intro through present) I have had three printers attached:
OkiMate-20, NEC P-6, and HP-550c.  While I have had to buy aftermarket
drivers for the HP, they are still PREFERENCES drivers.  NONE of my
software has custom printer drivers (I don't consider SaxonScript Pro a
driver, it writes via the pref printer also).  Applications: ADPro,
ProPage, excellence! (via PostScript -> SaxonScript), others..

 Dennis Lee Bieber	KD6MOG	(Wulfraed)
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