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Thomas Mercer-Hursh
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Well, that depends on the application. With mine, there were quite a large number of printers defined with different options for font, width, spacing, etc. and all of it was implemented with spooler scripts which supported option flags to produce the desired effects. I.e., all the escape sequences and such were in the spooler script, making it very straight forward to provide equivalent output on different devices. I thought it was a great design until we had to deal with cups and do it all over again. Note that one of the things this approach provided was that it was very easy to print to disk and subsequently print to a printer from the disk file and get desired output. And, we had scripts to do things like print to disk and print only the summary page at the end. Admittedly, this implies no formatting like bold etc. with the document. We did fancy printing too, but that was using the Kyocera Prescribe language. Of course, this was a long time ago!
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