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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, if you print to a printer what you're most often doing is saving it as an Adobe PostScript file and sending that to the printer. PDF is similar, just with extra bells and whistles.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    It was like that back in the eighties, until the manufacturers decided to save on the chips by moving functionality into the drivers. Which was basically the start of everyone's problems with printers.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Im not so sure. I bet more than half of the drivers out there produce PCL output, and there are a lot of printers that use other languages too like ZPL and a myriad of others.

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