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From: fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Printer Drivers
Message-ID: <731@ttrdf.UUCP>
Date: 29 Aug 88 15:49:38 GMT
References: <2943@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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in article <2943@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie) says:
> 
> 
> I for one am quite glad that everyone and their cousing isn't writing
> printer drivers.

Yeh. Who wants a choice in printers anyways? We SHOULD be satisfied with what
Apple has to offer. I'm sure that they MUST have a printer availible
that addresses all of our particuliar needs. And at a competitive
(competing with WHO?) price to boot!

> Of course, device independent printing is the ideal, as I am sure Apple is 
> aware and working on.  But until that day, I'll stick with Apple printers
> and Apple drivers.
> 
  Device independent printing was a design goal from day one.  How do you think
Apple can come out with radically diverse printers that pretty much work
with all prior applications just by supplying a printer driver?



	Another frustrated printer driver writer:
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Frank Owen (fjo@ttrdf)  312-982-2182
AT&T Information Systems
Computer Systems Division, 5555 Touhy Ave., Skokie, IL  60077
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