[plug] printer still not working

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Aug 5 22:44:28 WST 2003


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:21:42PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:

| Basically, the rendering gets done by the PC and shoved down the 
| printer's throat as a huge bitmap.

In that case, yes, the Minolta counts as a GDI printer.

| I don't know of an official definition, 
| although many people I know have highly-appropriate one-word 
| definitions like "braindead", which they also use for WinModems.

I was under the impression that rendering was done on the host for most
printers, especially inkjets, and also most non-Postscript lasers?

CP.



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