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From: thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Writing Printer Drivers
Message-ID: <1167@duteca.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 90 17:40:38 GMT
Reply-To: thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl (Thomas Okken)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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I want to write a couple of Macintosh printer drivers. I need a good preview
driver, which "Preview 2.5" isn't; a DeskJet driver that supports PrGeneral;
and a good Daisy wheel driver.

I have IM I-V, but all I can find there is how an application can print; the
driver's side of the story is not mentioned at all. I heard some rumours
recently that Apple was about to release the definitive guide to writing
printer drivers, but I have not seen this yet.
For the time being, I have nothing at all. *Any* source of printer driver
writing wisdom is welcome.

Please e-mail responses; if anything useful shows up, I'll pass it on to
this newsgroup. [There must be a need for this kind of information, how else
to explain the near-total lack of decent non-Apple printer drivers?]

Thomas (thomas@duteca.et.tudelft.nl)