Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
Jason Rumney wrote:
There is no such thing as a GDI printer. GDI is a Windows API for
drawing graphics. Printers take text or binary commands over a wire.
Setting up the printer through the network solves the problem that
USB ports do not have real character devices assigned to them by
default.
Yes, but it is also the language used for printing on those printers,
see for example:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:GDI_Printers
That page doesn't support your statement at all:
GDI is an API developed by Microsoft. The real problem is not the API
itself, but rather that GDI printers are exclusively accessible via a
proprietary protocol. Therefore, GDI printers should actually be called
"printers exclusively accessible via a proprietary protocol".