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Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Post by r00fus »

johannes1234321 wrote: post #128
jawsua wrote: post #83

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They hired the guy who created CUPS for Linux and BSD, that's how they "solved" it

And then they made sure to follow through and make it work. Hiring people in itself doesn't lead to solutions. You have to give them the tools they need and set priorities acros teams accordingly.

Arguably if they had a half-decent team they could've done it without hiring the CUPS creator in the first place (like Apple did originally). Hiring him (which I support) simply gave them street cred and signaled to the company that this wasn't some unsupported effort.

Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Post by skykooler »

zamadatix wrote: post #102
skykooler wrote: post #64

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Of course, not all routers (particularly combo router/modems provided by your ISP) support multicast DNS, so often this isn't an option.

The router doesn't really need to support anything, the mDNS packets just flood the bridge domain directly between clients like any other flooded packet.

Starlink routers don't forward mDNS packets between clients, and neither did our Fios router before that.

Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Post by darkclouds »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #124
darkclouds wrote: post #98

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Its a little bit more complicated than that, some drivers can handle direct line printing, some can handled the Window Meta File (WMF) and some can handle Enhanced Meta File (EMF) and now there is the new EMF+. So a trick that some people used was the wrong driver to make some printers behave in unsupported ways for a particular programs. And if a new driver didnt work, using the HP LaserJet 4 driver usually resolved…

>Its a little bit more complicated than that, some drivers can handle direct line printing, some can handled the Window Meta File (WMF) and some can handle Enhanced Meta File (EMF) and now there is the new EMF+. Most of what you said there is wrong.

How so?

Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Post by brokenmachine »

cstejerean wrote: post #75
skykooler wrote: post #64

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Of course, not all routers (particularly combo router/modems provided by your ISP) support multicast DNS, so often this isn't an option.

I haven't seen a home router that doesn't support Bonjour in the past decade. It's a fundamental component in the Apple ecosystem and any home router that didn't allow one to wireless print from their iPhone would be considered broken.

Do people really wireless print from their iPhone? Not once can I say I've wanted to print from my phone.

Re: Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows

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Post by atlanta90210 »

brokenmachine wrote: post #134
cstejerean wrote: post #75

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I haven't seen a home router that doesn't support Bonjour in the past decade. It's a fundamental component in the Apple ecosystem and any home router that didn't allow one to wireless print from their iPhone would be considered broken.

Do people really wireless print from their iPhone? Not once can I say I've wanted to print from my phone.

Yes iphone wireless printing works great esp PDF attachments in emails. I use it quite a bit.
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