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From: rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Printer Drivers
Message-ID: <327@ardent.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 22:57:07 GMT
Organization: Dana Computer, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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Summary: maybe there is a collector/library out there?

Given a proliferation of different printers now available at a massive
range of prices, I've often seen postings from folks about "does anyone
know how I can get a printer driver for model XXX-1001" and so on.  At
one time, long ago and far away, I recall some Amiga user group somewhere
volunteering to maintain a library of printer drivers, thus to become
the ultimate source for a new user to go to - in other words, $5 and 
a postage stamp, and maybe a blank disk as well could buy you a driver
for your printer.

Did this ever happen?  Is there one source that a dealer could recommend
to a new user who could provide a printer driver for most anything?
(Sure the PRTDRVGEN program can help much of the time, but does everyone
have to reinvent the wheel?)

Just thought I'd check.  Responses via EMAIL please... I'll post a summary
of the responses I get on this topic.  Seems if we want to keep pushing
the machine, it'd be nice to find a way to make it easy to bring a user
up to speed.   This is, as I understand, one of the sources of frustration.

Rob Peck			...ihnp4!hplabs!ardent!rap