23. Printing
Printer configuration is annoying and difficult. Users take printing for granted, but the administrative contortions required for deliver of perfectly rendered pages to a printer a foot away from the user can be challenging.
Two decades ago, the most common printers were ASCII line printers. Laser printers were expensive and rare. High-resolution output devices required custom driver software and formatting programs.
Today, instead of connecting to a single computer through a serial or parallel port, laser printers often connect to a TCP/IP network over an Ethernet or wireless link. Laser printers have largely lost the ...
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