In some printers yes, but the newer ones still have to balance data transfer requirements with onboard smarts. Processing power is cheap enough that it's probably still common to download fonts tot he printer and then position them rather than send the data to print a full page as 600x1200 resolution in 4 colors. Mine will do a ton of stuff when not connected to the computer at all, one example is the memory card print feature: This allows me to stick a memory card in, print one or more sheets with thumbnails of the pictures and checkboxes next to each picture and a set of check boxes on the bottom for options such as copies of each picture selected, size to print, crop style, etc. Once you've filled in the check boxes you scan the page and it recognizes which sheet of thumbnails, all the checkboxes, and fills the 'order'. So we can merely load photo paper and very quickly and easily select what we want to print from a given memory card, not unlike going to a photo kiosk at the store. Still, a ton of processing is done for computer printouts, and I bet that most of it is performed on the computer. I just suspect that computer doesn't send anything near a raw image to the printer - winprinters seem to have died out when people found they were very slow and rather limited. I don't think XP ever supported the official winprinter (wrong name, but I like it) spec. But of course each manufacturer will do as their bottom line requires. -Adam On 1/30/08, Harold Hallikainen wrote: > I think the printers themselves are just getting incredibly dumb. The > smarts (how to draw a character or whatever) has been moved over to the > "driver." It's the "WinModem" approach to printing. > > Harold > > > -- > FCC Rules Updated Daily at http://www.hallikainen.com - Advertising > opportunities available! > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Moving in southeast Michigan? Buy my house: http://ubasics.com/house/ Interested in electronics? Check out the projects at http://ubasics.com Building your own house? Check out http://ubasics.com/home/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist