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I know that. I meant in the consumer space.

On 7 Feb 2012, at 15:28, Duncan Thomas wrote:

> On 7 February 2012 14:01, Domhnall Walsh <domhnallwa...@gmail.com> =
wrote:
>> Hmm. Well, serial port printers haven't existed since the days of dot =
matrix
>> and daisy wheels. Parallel port printers, yes, absolutely, but if =
there's
>> inbuilt printing support it'll use the print spooler built into your =
OS (as
>> any other approach would be too complex, short of something that only =
dumps
>> pure Postscript, which is a rarity these days) and as such should be
>> agnostic of the physical connector.
>=20
> Serial printers are absolutely still widely used in the embedded
> space... many thermal role printers (till receipt printers) are
> serial.
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Duncan Thomas