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From: Jim on 7 Apr 2010 04:26 <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/06/apple_ipad_iphone_os_4_ma y_gain_direct_printing_support.html> If true I'll be very interested to see how they do this. I still think that drivers are going to be a potentially huge problem, and I still think that printing via a Windows/Mac client app might be the way to go. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: Jon B on 7 Apr 2010 04:43 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/06/apple_ipad_iphone_os_4_ma > y_gain_direct_printing_support.html> > > If true I'll be very interested to see how they do this. I still think > that drivers are going to be a potentially huge problem, and I still > think that printing via a Windows/Mac client app might be the way to go. > Would sound the logical way to do it, as that doesn't require any drivers at the mac end on OS X -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Ric on 7 Apr 2010 06:08 On Apr 7, 10:30 am, use...(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > Once you have > that, the rest is just saying 'you can print to these printers, the rest > you can't until they write the iPad drivers'. > > -- > Woody Surely it'd more like "these are the approved printers. You can buy them in the Apple Store! Oh, and no-one wants to print to *those* printers, they're technically inferior. And don't come in white and aluminium..."!
From: Ian McCall on 8 Apr 2010 02:49 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the > late 70s. > I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. Cheers, Ian
From: Woody on 8 Apr 2010 03:25
Ian McCall <ian(a)eruvia.org> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Printer drivers really aren't hard, we had that problem nailed by the > > late 70s. > > I could print from my spectrum, and my ST and my newton. > > Errm...nailed? Don't know about you but I was still creating my own > printer drivers with Epson escape codes etc. 'til the early nineties. > You mention the ST: everything had its own driver and I used to have to > hack out 1st Word Plus drivers, Calamus drivers...probably Signum > drivers too though I don't quite remember that one for sure. I had a star LC10 - I never had to make a printer driver for anything for the ST with that. Calamus had one, word perfect too, but other things could print to it too, such as steinberg 24 (which printed graphics fine) and neopaint. And you could do screenshots, so there must have been a general one too (I ruined a ribon hitting print during dungeon master!) -- Woody www.alienrat.com |