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Yeah, I'm surprised this works. I expected some complex printer-specific reverse engineered protocol.
by hombre_fatal 2y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised this works. I expected some complex printer-specific reverse engineered protocol.
- shakna 2y agoThe modern "protocol" is PDF. That's what everyone standardised on during the rise of smartphones and needing to have them able to print. PDF includes pretty much all the printer needs, like pagesize, colour palette, font information, etc. It's not the greatest format in the world... But everyone can shove in one of dozens of PDF parsing libraries without a lot of effort. So it happened.
- account42 2y agoThe document format is PDF (or postscript before that), the protocol is IPP.