Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> Companies that develop printers want money.
> They need to continuously sell printers ...

This seems to be becoming less and less accurate.

It has long been the case that consumer-grade ink-blot printers are
sold below cost -- the money being made by selling ink cartridges.
In recent years, some manufacturers of laser printers seem to be
adopting this business model also.