On 2010/09/22 at 9:27, [email protected] (David Brodbeck) wrote:
If this were true, and there really were a big conspiracy on
Microsoft's part to make manufacturers only support Windows, then you
wouldn't see cheap printers that support both Windows and MacOS X. In
reality, such printers are pretty easy to find.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by simple economics. ;)
The question you are missing is *HOW* does MacOS X print to all these
"cheap printers"?
Lets take a couple of screen captures from Mac OS X.6 (Apple's
latest released
OS) with all current updates installed:
http://giessel.org/pictures/OSX_printers1.png
http://giessel.org/pictures/OSX_printers2.png
Hmm, CUPS, and Gutenprint.... Are these methods available for FreeBSD?
Mainly what Apple did was pre-install and pre-configure in a user-friendly
way CUPS and Gutenprint.
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