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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> First time I heard of a printer that won't print plain text.  I will look
> up her Lexmark after I find the model number again.

The latest cheap ones, such as my Lexmark, only have enough intelligence to
accept a proprietary image format and send it on to the ink nozzles. They can
do this at a reasonable speed because USB is faster than the parallel port.
And apparently, most Windows users install drivers before they print anything.

> Netpbm should work with anything that does deskjet/laserjet or epson
> emulation, to print graphics,

I don't know of any Lexmarks that do deskjet/laserjet.

> and I think there is a netpbm program that will convert text to graphics.

Really? Which one? That would be very useful for printing.

David