Am 14. März 2018 10:49:21 MEZ schrieb Didier Kryn <kryn@???>:
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>     Dear Florian, I agree with you that it is nice to enable the
> software to ask the devices what their properties are, by some
> protocol.


Hallo Didier,

just to avoid confusion: this was not my point, but Menelaos Maglis's. I just tried to figure out that the basics of printing (like most things in computong) are a quite simple thing: pushing ones and zeroes.

Besides that: Of course, in bandwidth-limited environments, it is more effective to send some (K)B of vectors over the network, than a >15MB bitmap (letter@only1200dpi) to print the usually quite empty page 2 of some essay and let the printer do the rendering.

I guess that's part of why we are here: To restore the original meaning of "economical" :-)

libre Grüße,

Florian


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