Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:43:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905282140400.61809@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20090528193719.97764c30.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <23711563.post@talk.nabble.com> <20090525154816.3cee4b9a@scorpio> <20090526144939.d21275c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <b79ecaef0905270909kd81dabcpf22289b7781c2885@mail.gmail.com> <20090527133706.1a6e4612@scorpio> <b79ecaef0905280413v28529afye2037e3c5cb5da0a@mail.gmail.com> <20090528083057.554dca76@scorpio> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905281434040.59970@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090528090941.1b39b676@scorpio> <20090528183141.107ff3e4.freebsd@edvax.de> <20090528170909.GA1841@phenom.cordula.ws> <20090528193719.97764c30.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> That was true in the past, but today, it's much more complicated > than just regularing an article's quality over the price. You > can - without any problems - get crap for (too) much money. You > pay for a brand name, or a standard's name, but you get crap. HP products (printers, cameras, and other office equipment) are really perfect examples. I mean new HP products, not those 10-20 years ago where HP was expensive but really good. > Exactly. Even el-anachronismo dotmatrix printers could turn > simple text, transmitted to the parallel port, into printed > form. Today's el-stupido printers can't. I don't agree it's bad idea of removing processing hardware from printer. It's good idea as such processing is a blink of eye for today computers. The problem is that there is NO STANDARD for raw bitmap printers. If it would - then just adding this to ghostscript would be few hours of work.
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