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On 5/29/25 9:36 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2025 21:22:46 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> 
>> My Inkjet printer doesnt allow me to fill magenta ink into the cyan
>> reservoir either. And it even works driverlessly with Linux, just to get
>> back on topic.
> 
> I was surprised when I plugged the Samsung laser printer into the Linux
> box It Just Worked. I have a fraught relationship with printers going back
> decades. I seldom print and it used to be a very unpleasant experience to
> get the damned things to work.

   It IS much better now ... and I very much DO
   remember the bad old days of serial and wide
   Centronics and having to recompile drivers ...

   DID love the old 'wide' Epson dot-matrix printer
   though ... slow, but you could actually print a
   program on it without breaking lines. Had notebooks
   filled with those printouts  :-)

   On the flip ... a couple years ago I was able to
   backtrack a link on a review publication and get
   THE most recent net activity for EVERYTHING. One
   thing was a HP office printer, offshore. I was
   able to log in and make it print a test page. No
   doubt the locals were a bit confused. However if
   MALICE was intended, a lot of the things keep a
   buffer of recent docs ....

   So, 'universality' has its ups, and downs.