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Old Oct 12, 2021 | 12:26 am
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Originally Posted by KRSW
My biggest gripe about printers are the drivers. The mechanicals usually make sense, even if they are very cheaply-built these days.
Not-quite-the-cheapest lasers tend to be happy with PCL or Postscript drivers, some of them all the way back to the 1980s. It's often preferable to use generic drivers to the manufacturers' more recent ones.

(Canon has their own system, UFR II, which isn't quite as standard but seems to work with almost all Canon large office printer/copiers which seem to be less likely to support PS/PCL)

Inkjets, custom photo printers, etc, are much less standard. The few surviving dot matrix printers all pretty much support the old Epson standard, but they're a very specialized piece of kit for multipart forms.
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