[Sussex] Argos Catalogue surprise

[Nic James Ferrier]

Steven Dobson <steve at dobson.org> writes:

> The advantage of a published standard - Postscript.  All postscript
> printers use the same generic driver.  Therefore a supplier only needs
> to worry about testing his printer against the same driver all other
> Postscript printers use.  Likewise the Linux printing subsystems also
> needs only test one diver.

Doesn't change the fact that it's ridiculously difficult to setup and
therefore a potential support issue.

I raise this issue because we linux hackers often complain about
hardware manufacturers not supplying hardware for us. But with
printers at least I can see why - and it's our (the linux hackers)
fault for not building good tools.

Of course... that's also because printing is very boring. Otherwise
we'd all be working on solving the problem.

-- 
Nic Ferrier
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