[conspire] Bad hardware category HP Printers [was Re: Bad hardware categories (wasL: July 13th CABAL meeting cancelled)]]

[Tony Godshall]

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> Thank you for mentioning that, Tony.  I really had no idea.

yeah, that one amazed me too when I discovered it

> In fairness to HP, these _aren't_ lobotomised printers the way classic
> winprinters are.  I.e., HP isn't building a software emultaion of a
> printer's normal hardware engine into the MS-Windows print drivers and
> thereby offloading all printing processing load onto the host computer.
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ok, fine, but still we are talking about novel and closed interfaces
where existing ones would have done well and been interoperable.  no
doubt the new interface will be good once its reverse-engineered but
in the meantime harm is still done