Re: no such thing as a "generic" printer...

well yes, there have been existing and I still own one of them, but
now you will have hard time to get an 'generic' behaving printer
anywhere except somehow secondhand in e-bay.

The present days printers have almost only USB connection or
alternatively firewire or ethernet. Then here the generic drivers we
used to have for printing text on a paralell port have no fuction any
more. This was simply transfering ascii chars to the printer and few
other chars for linefeed etc.
The sddressing of the paralell port could have been done by simple
setting the binary pattern of the particular address. In such case no
driver essential, it is just wires beeing connected and this could be
theoreticaly operated by a handfull switches.

I think such thing is not so simple if it is USB connection, since
there has to be a connection first and for that the devices driver has
to be installed. And if the driver is essential for the communication,
then it will process the printing of what ever as well.



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