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by amluto 915 days ago
> You very often also need some backchannel from the printer, e.g. for toner levels

Fine. That runs in a separate sandbox with access to the printer and the ability to display a UI. No other privileges.

> Printer manufacturers also don't think like this.

This is irrelevant. The whole article is about MS forcing a certain model on printer manufacturers.