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RE: driver for Windows-only printer



On 04-Aug-98 Leonid A. Taouz wrote:
>   Does anyone have driver for it called mswinpr2 ?? 
>   Or maybe there are another ways to force sucha animal work under Linux ? 

Hee, hee, hee.... your problems are far worse than just Linux support. Will it
have Win98 driver? Win99? Win2000? Does it have NT4 driver? Will it have NT5
driver? In short do you think the printer manufacturer would bother supporting
and upgrading drivers for this printer in the next 1-3 years when he is busy
making newer models?

The poor champ who paid for this "device" paid for thin air. If you like a
better calculation of the savings -- divide the price by the lifetime of one
windows version (Win95 English, Win95 Hebrew, NT4, Win98, NT5).

Same goes for Win-modems and other vapourware.

P.S: In a second thought, it's ok to buy this stuff if it is for single use
and you plan to throw it in 1-2 years. As your experience shows, these
assumptions usualy fails.

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