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In article <22751@brunix.UUCP>, omh@nancy (Owen M. Hartnett) writes:
...
> Please, please, open up your printing manager to the general [read: developer]
> public.  If you really want to get *securely* entrenched in the business
> world, you've got to have a variety of output devices.  Look, we've got
> 160MB and bigger hard disks now.  What are we going to print all this
> information on that we've been storing on them?  Imagewriter's too slow and
> laserwriter's duty cycle too low.  
> 
> *You need a high speed output device*  Either a band printer, or good high
...

     The Macintosh Printing Manager has been fully (yes, fully)
documented by Apple.  A number of commercial software publishers
have managed to come out with functional printer drivers for the
Macintosh which print text and/or graphics on anything from a
Brother typewriter to a Hewlett-Packard pen plotter to commercial
addressing machines to high-speed line printers and probably even
one of those 3M thermal things I had when I was an undergraduate.
Writing a Printer Resource file is easy; there is even an article
in MacTutor magazine showing how to do it, with all the source
code supplied and pictures for the faint of heart.  I get calls
all the time from guys with high-priced, high-speed paper munchers
who have one hooked up to a Mac+ running my driver and couldn't be
more thrilled.  I wrote the d*mn thing because I was tired of
hearing precisely the kind of belly-aching exemplified by the
above comments, and I never, ever, expected to hear any more such
in this or any other forum.

     It is the developer community which is at fault, and not
Apple, for the apparent shortage of printer drivers for the
Macintosh. 

Disclaimer:  I have no connection with MacTutor magazine, other
than as a one-time (to date) contributing author.
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