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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:36:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Imagine how ridiculous it would be to write a DOS program that PRINTS, in 2024?

   No OS drivers! You have to program in support for every printer separately.

   I'm tempted

   • vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 04:38:49 JST vxo

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     @foone I wonder just how many actually support PCL3 and you can just use that. For the longest time it was almost universal, I mean--- the go-to for a universal printer driver was just to tell your OS/application it's a Laserjet 4 in PCL personality

     A bunch of inkjets also did ESC/P2

     Really this kinda just all continued right up until Canon figured out they could save two cents per printer by making the Windows GDI output a raster image and clock it out the parallel port