After painstakingly installing printer drivers for a thermal printer at work I realized I still don’t truly understand what I was installing. (Bonus points if you can cover video card drivers too cause idk what drivers are In that sense either)
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Your computer might know how to talk to some devices, but it doesn’t know how to talk to all of them.
A driver is a piece of system-level software that is basically telling the system what that newly-added feature does and acts as its translator. A printer driver says “Hey, I’ve got this printer here. He speaks a little funny. Let me handle translation. Talk to me, and I’ll convey the message to him.”
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