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Re: Why can't Windows 10 install a simple HP LaserJet 2100m printer driver?

From "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject Re: Why can't Windows 10 install a simple HP LaserJet 2100m printer driver?
Date 2016-08-25 21:58 +0100
Organization 255 software
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In message <lgbsrbdu98oa50lfnlon07dr6js4h42e2t@4ax.com>, Ken Blake 
<Ken@invalid.news.com> writes:
>On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:40:48 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
><G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In message <jparrbpucrq803ukejtgnfl074ad0vjf0q@4ax.com>, Ken Blake
>><Ken@invalid.news.com> writes:
>>>On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:23:57 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
>>><G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>1. dot matrix
>>>>>2. ink
>>>>>3. laser
>>>>>
>>>>>Three universal drivers would do us just fine.
>>>>
>>>>Actually, for the above, one would - because the above are all dot
>>>>matrix. (I've never liked the term dot matrix being used for what should
>>>>be called impact, or ribbon, or similar.)
>>>>
>>>>All three of the above put marks on paper as a matrix of dots; it is
>>>>only the _means_ by which they make the dots that varies,
>>>
>>>
>>>There's another very big difference between them. When you look at the
>>>print produced by a dot-matrix printer, you can see the dots; with the
>>>other two you can not. And to me, that justifies calling it a
>>>dot-matrix.
>>
>>An impact printer in text-only draft mode, yes. In high-quality graphics
>>mode (unless it's a very cheap one), you'd have to look quite carefully
>>to see them -
>
>
>It was a lot of years ago, but with my first PC and dot-matrix
>printer, I used to use software (I've forgotten its name) that would
>emulate postscript and produce high-quality text in  a wide variety of
>fonts. No dots were visible, at least not without magnification.
>
>But I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about the normal text
>they produced.

That was using them in their draft mode - which was text only, and is 
something I think most modern printers don't even have.

Windows - I think from around 3.1 on, possibly 3.0 - operates in 
"graphics mode", so of course can print fonts and so on.

I guess I feel they're unfairly dismissed. They're noisy and slow, and 
aren't really capable of colour (yes, I know they did try). But they 
_are_ capable of high-quality output. They're also very economical to 
run, and also in many cases, very solidly built. (I'm watching a 
programme about steam locomotives - the Flying Scotsman in particular - 
and can't help seeing some parallels! Except steam locos are 
phenomenally _expensive_ to keep going.)
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

After a typical day at the BBC you want something to take your mind off work,
although in the end, decent people being eaten alive by heartless monsters
running amok proved no distraction. - Eddie Mair, RT 2015/7/4-10

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