Printers and Filepro

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/5/2012 12:31 PM, Kroboth, Joe wrote:
[...]
>> Who would think that they would make printers so dumb that they can't
>> even print the letter "A"?
>>
>> Unfortunately, the market has become "how cheap can we sell it for in
>> the store", totally ignoring "how much is this printer *really* going
>> to cost, once you add in ink (which you can't buy in bulk because the
>> ink has more brains than the printer, and will expire on a given date,
>> regardless of how much ink is still left) and other expenses".
>>
>> As I like to say... "free after rebate is too expensive".
>
> Why would a customer care how the letter "A" is printed?

And that's the way the printer manufacturers like it.

"You can buy our el-cheapo printer for $5 less than the other brand's 
el-cheapo printer" is all they hope the buyer sees.

> When the printer specifications states it works with Windows,  one would
> think it should work with filePro on Windows.

Unfortunately, what they really mean is "this printer uses a proprietary 
interface, and is only capable of painting pictures, and only through the 
drivers that only we provide, and anything that assumes that this printer is 
capable of doing more than squirting ink on the page will be unable to print 
to it".  Of course, the marketing department probably thought it might be 
better to leave that off of the box.  :-)

filePro is one of those software packages that assumes the printer can do 
more than squirt ink onto the page.

-- 
Kenneth Brody