Re: Printing to an "old" printer

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From: Ramón G Castañeda (sorry.nomail_at_all.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:55:16 -0800

In article eacuiUNzEHA.3836@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl, Chris Inacio at
inacio+msnews@ece.cmu.edu wrote on 11/17/04 10:42:

>>
>> The age of the printer has little to do with it. I'm printing to two old
>> Apple LW printers, a IIg and a IINTX with no problems (as well as to two
>> Epsons).
>>
>> On the other hand, if you scan the Apple discussion boards or the Adobe
>> forums, you'll see that over 95% of the printing problems experienced by Mac
>> users involve HP printers.
>>
> Is that because HP dominates the market or that their printers are crap.
> I would guess the former, not the latter.
>
> Chris

 Given only those two alternatives, I definitely go for the latter (" their
printers are crap"). However, there's a third possibility and that applies
here: HP doesn't know how to write software for the Mac (drivers).
 
 
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