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- From: David Megginson <DMEGGINS@acadvm1.uottawa.ca>
- Subject: How do Linux printer drivers work?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.125106.17662@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: DMEGGINS@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 12:51:06 GMT
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- I would like to know a little bit about how Linux printer drivers
- work before I put together my final system to run Linux. A 300 dpi
- page takes a little over 1MB to map out. Does the printer driver
- grab a MB of real or virtual memory from my machine and do the work
- there, or do I _have_ to have a lot of RAM in my printer? I know
- that the Apple Stylewriter has no RAM, and the the Mac just draws
- parts of the page in its own memory, then sends them out.
-
- The point is that I want to buy an inexpensive printer for the Linux
- system which I am putting together, as long as it is at least
- 300x300 dpi and can handle at least 3-4 ppm. Please give me as
- much technical information on the drivers as you can -- I am a
- former Minix kernel hacker, and am not afraid of the tech stuff.
-
-
- David
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- David Megginson Department of English,
- dmeggins@acadvm1.uottawa.ca University of Ottawa
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