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| From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
| Subject: | Re: w32 issues |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:08:18 +0100 |
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Jason Rumney wrote:
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:I do not think that is the driver. That is only the API to access the printer. Same as a driver is using (but it does a lot more).No, that is the API that applications use to talk to the printer driver.
Ah, yes thanks. You are right of course.But the printer is only opened and then raw data is sent to it. What we might usually think of as the driver is bypassed.
The printer driver must talk directly to the printer using low level I/O functions, if Windows had any further abstractions that would entail another level of drivers.
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