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by ssl-3
622 days ago
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An old HP laser printer will buffer plain text line-by-line, and will print a page once the last line is buffered. That buffer could have several random programs' outputs in it, all just dumped as simply as possible to /dev/lp0 (or lpt1 or whatever), and it works. A LaserWriter can't do these things. |
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You could usually set a timeout to eject the page if no data had been received for a while.
>A LaserWriter can't do these things.
The LaserWriter could emulate a Diablo printer which would do the same thing. It wouldn't accept PostScript then though.