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Sharing a printer, the hard way: writing your own spooler
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– I have an ultra-cheap HP Color Laserjet 1600 printer, the kind that costs less than a full set of replacement toner cartridges, and the ones that are shipped in the box are only 20% full. From the driver publisher info it appears the I/O protocol logic of the printer was provided by a company called Zenographics, which appears to now be either a part of or owned by Marvell. It works well enough when you have it directly connected to a machine via the USB cable, but sharing it is a nightmare. In particular, the drivers are very unstable when targeting shared printers. Especially problematic is ...
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