Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!midway!zaphod!francis From: francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 20:30:09 GMT References: <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1991Mar1.193406.22014@eng.ufl.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 34 In-Reply-To: smg@sparky.cis.ufl.edu's message of 1 Mar 91 19:34:06 GMT In article <1991Mar1.193406.22014@eng.ufl.edu> smg@sparky.cis.ufl.edu (Scot M. Gardner) writes: In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: >Besides which, he's wrong. A Mac's printer driver handles >*everything* for the app. All you'd have to do to use a 12 baud >printer would be plug it in, copy the driver into the System Folder, >select it from the Chooser, and print. From _ANY_ app--none of this >garbage about having a special driver for each program/printer >combination that needs to handle graphics. > I see, and how does one go about building this print driver?? You think APPLE has one?? Well, no, not as such.... A printer that wasn't intended for a Mac is a problem, of course; but there's no way around that: Macs need to put out their graphics info, and there has to be *something* to interpret all that stuff. And if you buy a printer intended to be used with Mac, the company includes the driver, you stick it in, et voila. I suppose it would be possible to set up customization options on a printer driver: make a generalized driver, whose setings you could then tweak in a cdev. (You'd need two separate files for that, but that's a minor pain.) -- /=============================================================================\ | Francis Stracke | My opinions are my own. I don't steal them.| | Department of Mathematics |=============================================| | University of Chicago | Until you stalk and overrun, | | francis@zaphod.uchicago.edu | you can't devour anyone. -- Hobbes | \=============================================================================/