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From: mark@epsoft.UUCP (Mark Chamberlain)
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Subject: Printer Drivers
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Date: 14 Apr 91 05:16:54 GMT
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Eric P. Scott writes ->
>There's a simple explanation why I did an ImageWriter
>driver instead: I could.
>
>					-=EPS=-


Hmm.. I haven't seen your ImageWriter driver yet - is the source  
available? How easy/hard is it to write device drivers for NeXTStep?
Where is it documented? (if at all..)

One of the cutest printers around is a Hewlett-Packard Deskjet - now  
whilst I agree that NeXT printers are cheaper than most, it would  
still be nice to be able to use whats around (looking whats around my  
office is 3 HP printers, LJ 3,  LJ 2, Deskjet Plus), and it would  
make sense to write a driver for them.. the NeXT is doing all the  
clever bits, a printer driver has (I guess) just got to throw a  
bitmap at the printer.. hey presto, a Postscript Deskjet.

I'd be really grateful for any pointers as to how I'd go about  
writing a NeXTStep printer-driver - I'm no stranger to writing this  
kinda stuff (for instance under Windows 3), I just can't seem to lay  
hands on the info I need to get going.

TIA, Mark
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