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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel
Message-ID: <1990Jul5.132722.24100@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 13:27:22 GMT
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In article <2988@gmdzi.UUCP> strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
>casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
>
>
>>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.

What monodirectional links?  In any case, it is possible for the users of
a printer such as the ImageWriter to change the paper size that the
computer believes is in the printer via the Page Setup dialog box (though
it defaults to standard 8.5x11 on US systems).  Fonts don't matter-- the mac
nearly always prints in graphics mode (except in 'draft', where it uses the
printers default font).  For postscript printers, there is no monodirectional
link, so the printer can be queried.
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