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On 14/08/11 23:17, Gordon Henderson wrote: > > I remember when printing used to be easy - you ran lpd, send postscript > to it and it sent it to a printer, and if the printer didn't support > postscript, you plumbed ghostview (which had a driver for most printers > at the time), into lpd and off it went. I think you are imaging a time better than it was. I believe the Brother's with network cards offer lpr print queue like HP network printers. > Now, I'm almost thinking that Apple is doing something right by > inventing "driverless" printing. (although they'll patent it and sue > everyone else who tries to use it, but that's another matter) Something communicates the features of the printer, and if it has new features it'll need a driver of some sort unless the feature is so trivial as to be communicable in a config file or similar. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq