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Why not?

Why not?

Posted Jul 12, 2009 10:29 UTC (Sun) by efexis (guest, #26355)
In reply to: Why not? by drag
Parent article: The Google Chrome OS

"In order to do printing with 'just a browser on a kernel'..."

...you're going to need for your webapp / cloud server to understand how to output your document in your printers language, and you're going to need your browser to let you send that file to your printer.

Why would you need your printer drivers to be stored locally, if your documents aren't?


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