JL>                       If so, all rasterization is done by the PC's CPU
 JL> -- the printer has no smarts at all.  I don't think such a printer
 JL> can do anything at all under DOS or any other operating system except
 JL> Windows.
I've seen this statement before, but I have difficulty squaring it with many 
years of people using ordinary dot-matrix printers with DOS to produce 
graphical output with no difficulty at all.  DOS programs have been doing all 
of the rasterisation for relatively unintelligent printers for many years.
I suspect that "Windows printer" refers more to the lack of support, in terms 
of shipped (or indeed, developed) drivers and font files, for DOS 
applications.  In other words: no more little floppies with subdirectories 
named \ACAD, \PARADOX, \123, and suchlike.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
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