Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
by hombre_fatal on Friday October 04, 2024 @10:54PM
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Yeah, I'm surprised this works. I expected some complex printer-specific reverse engineered protocol.
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Re:Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
by shakna on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:37PM
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The modern "protocol" is PDF. That's what everyone standardised on during the rise of smartphones and needing to have them able to print.
PDF includes pretty much all the printer needs, like pagesize, colour palette, font information, etc.
It's not the greatest format in the world... But everyone can shove in one of dozens of PDF parsing libraries without a lot of effort. So it happened.