Date   : Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:00:03 +0000
From   : "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <beeb@...>
Subject: Re: Printers

* Andrew W (a.weston2@...) wrote:

> That's atrocious thow isn't it? I mean changing the 'standard' port
> from parallel to USB is one thing but making Windows the only OS
> supported is another!

Not all of them do that; a lot of them rely on the host - Samsung are
pretty good at having open source drivers/specs available; so the
printers are dumb but drivers are available for a lot of things.
(Although I'd admit that driving them off a Model B would be 
a challenge!).

Dave
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