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itsbruce in reply to @sohi

Wait this is how it's supposed to be on Macs.

Used to be, back when Macs were much more of a niche and Apple felt they could get by with supporting only a limited range of 3rd party hardware. A lot of the "everything just works on a Mac" meme came from the Mac tech universe being much less diverse and Mac users typically only working with other Mac users.

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useless in reply to @itsbruce

Most home printers have fairly shit drivers for Windows, but they're probably better tested than the shit ones the manufacturer wrote for Mac.

Macs might do better with a proper PostScript printer, since that's what Unixen traditionally support. Unfortunately I don't know that any consumer printers for in that category.

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itsbruce in reply to @useless

"Winprinters" took over the home space and most non-specialist office usage a long time ago. Cheaper to make and makes the customer more dependent. For a lot of personal uses, drivers have now even been replaced by a dependency on the manufacturer's online services.

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