flowchart layout enquiry

[Nigel Goodwin]

Windows printers are quite frankly crap.

It makes no sense to use the main CPU for tasks like printing a time where tasks such as graphics and sound are increasingly been handeled by other processors. Also it means that people can't use them with free software.

It makes great commercial sense - it brings the cost of the printers right down! - because of Windows Printers you can now buy colour lasers for considerably less than black/white ones used to cost. In the old days 'real' printers cost a LOT of money, and you often had to upgrade the memory if you wanted to print a full page graphic on them!.

 

[Hero999]

I suppose so, but I would never buy one, not unless it has Linux drivers at least.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I suppose so, but I would never buy one, not unless it has Linux drivers at least.

Obviously something you would need to check for, they normally provide Windows and Mac drivers - and isn't the new Mac based on Linux?.

 

[philba]

It makes great commercial sense - it brings the cost of the printers right down! - because of Windows Printers you can now buy colour lasers for considerably less than black/white ones used to cost. In the old days 'real' printers cost a LOT of money, and you often had to upgrade the memory if you wanted to print a full page graphic on them!.

You beat me to the response. yes. that is totally correct. I just bought a canon printer for $99. Fantastic graphics and it has individual ink tanks for easier refilling. It make no sense to embed a graphics engine + ram + fonts in the printer when the PC can do it.

The real crime, er business model, is the cost of ink cartridges and the crap that some companies do to prevent refilling them.

 

[Hero999]

Obviously something you would need to check for, they normally provide Windows and Mac drivers - and isn't the new Mac based on Linux?.

No..........

 

[Marks256]

Oh, fine, it is UNIX based... :lol:

 

[Hero999]

That doesn't mean that Linux can use drivers meant for Mac OS X though.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

That doesn't mean that Linux can use drivers meant for Mac OS X though.

No, but at least it means that theres already something VERY close to it.

 

[Marks256]

No matter how good the software is, they are still apples....