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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gary Kline
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 3:41 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions; Kurt Buff; Chuck Robey; Derek Ragona
> Subject: RE: Duplex printer advice
> 
> 
> At the same time, HP's patents are about to expire in the next few
> years.  Anybody 
> know when, to-the-year?
> 

HP uses Canon's imaging engines for their printers, the patents are
mainly on the HP-specific control stuff, which nobody really cares
much about.

Ted