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From: ac08@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ((C. Irby))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel
Message-ID: <28801.26928b1a@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 00:34:34 GMT
References: <8974@goofy.Apple.COM> <2988@gmdzi.UUCP>
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In article <2988@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
> 
>>In article <1990Jul2.191321.23971@portia.Stanford.EDU> 
>>aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>>> In article <1990Jul1.125052.7037@kth.se> h+@nada.kth.se writes:
>>> >About printer drivers: You drop them into the system folder.
>>> >That's it. No configuring, no fuss.
>>> 
>>> Is this true for the non-Apple drivers as well (MacPrint)?  I mean, I'd
>>> HOPE that Apple requires no configuration for its own printers...
> 
>>No configuration is required for any printer driver that supports Apple's 
>>printing architecture.  Admittedly that architecture is largely 
>>undocumented, but several companies have written successful drivers for 
>>the Mac nonetheless.
> 
> This either implies that the printer driver can query the printer about
> the resources (memory, fonts, resolution, paper size, ...) it has 
> available - which is not possible on monodirectional links -, or it
> restricts the printer driver to worst case asumptions.

You win the brass ring!

The Mac print drivers and print architecture are intelligent- and if you
(for example) have a LaserWriter driver, it *can* check to see what type
of printer it's talking to...

Surprise!

> 
> Wolfgang Strobl
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