People are excited about being able to print from OS4 now?
Talk about lowering the bar...
:laughing: :roflmao::roflmao:
nah. but some of us are finding the driver compatibility a bit sparse with regards to modern printers. no issues with anything postscript or PCL based, and some support for DOT4 printers, but printers from HP and/or epson with host-side page-description are a problem. based on what we heard from amiwest, the developers are looking to 'future proof' the printing system by adopting something from the free software world -- such as haiku did with gutenprint -- to ensure that we don't fall behind in printer driver support.
turboprint still works great -- well, at least on my system -- but new printers from the past couple of years aren't fully supported since it's been EOL'd. the AROS community is even worse off, based on my usage of icaros; i know morphOS includes turboprint as their printing architecture. how do they handle the problem of supporting new printers? do they have someone who works on creating new turboprint drivers?
it's a problem you'll find with any of the amiga platforms: the printing world is just moving faster than we can keep up with. for now nearly all of the printers that i would purchase are supported by the built-in drivers or contributions on os4depot.
what i'd really like to see is support for higher-end printers and imagesetters coupled with pagestream5 finally finished. oh, and a new arteffect while we're at it. but, um, that seems rather unlikely.
-- eliyahu
