On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 07:18, Michael Torrie wrote: > Most inkjets have no brains in them. They are pretty much like the > dot-matrix printers of yore.
Working closely with the ASIC team here in the inkjet division I beg to differ slightly. All inkjet printers these days can print amazing photo quality images and they have an ARM or Motorola Coldfire or some similar processor, custom image enhancement hardware, and firmware written by a whole slew of programmers. There is some stiff competition to get the highest image quality and page rates, and the more you do in hardware on the printer the better you can do with those. Everyone makes a low-end printer too though with a price point around $35. To save money all that firmware and the image enhancement algorithms are moved to the driver and that's when you get a "winprinter". Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
