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Article #31661Re: Apple Printer Drivers
From: Frank Owen
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1988 15:49
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 1988 15:49
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in article <2943@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie) says: > > > I for one am quite glad that everyone and their cousing isn't writing > printer drivers. Yeh. Who wants a choice in printers anyways? We SHOULD be satisfied with what Apple has to offer. I'm sure that they MUST have a printer availible that addresses all of our particuliar needs. And at a competitive (competing with WHO?) price to boot! > Of course, device independent printing is the ideal, as I am sure Apple is > aware and working on. But until that day, I'll stick with Apple printers > and Apple drivers. > Device independent printing was a design goal from day one. How do you think Apple can come out with radically diverse printers that pretty much work with all prior applications just by supplying a printer driver? Another frustrated printer driver writer: -- Frank Owen (fjo@ttrdf) 312-982-2182 AT&T Information Systems Computer Systems Division, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL 60077 PATH: ...!att!ttrdf!fjo
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!ucsd!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!att!ttrdc!ttrde!ttrdf!fjo From: fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Printer Drivers Message-ID: <731@ttrdf.UUCP> Date: 29 Aug 88 15:49:38 GMT References: <2943@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL Lines: 26