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From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Printer Drivers?
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Date: 1 Jun 88 04:35:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    May 31 23:35:00 1988


Please send me information about writing printer drivers for the
Macintosh.  I realize that MacTutor had an article on how to write a
daisywheel driver a few months (years?) ago.

I am most interested in writing a dot-matrix printer driver.  Many
commercial letter-quality printers are 24-pin and support 360*180 dots
per inch resolution.  Where else can I find out about writing this
kind of driver?

Does Apple discourages this?  They certainly don't go out of their way
to explain how to do this in Inside Macintosh, or in the Apple
Technical Notes.

Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
            {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}