23 Printing
When we wrote the first edition of this book, the most common printers were ASCII line printers. Laser printers were new, expensive, and rare. High-resolution output devices required custom driver software and formatting programs.
By the time the second edition was published, line printers had practically become antiques. Numerous standards had been established for page description and printing languages. Laser printers had permeated the market and were widely used.
Today, as we prepare this third edition for publication, laser printers often connect to an Ethernet network instead of a serial or parallel port. They have largely ...
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