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by chubs 21 days ago
What if computers simply rendered 300dpi PNG files and sent that to the printer?
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That's actually what a lot of Brother printers do with their default or generic drivers. Except... it's JPEG, not PNG, so you get artifacting. Drives me crazy.

Installing the specific driver like it's 1999 works well, but most people don't bother these days. And thus the world is a bit more crap.