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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Drivers are in a way a program that translates from what the computer says to whet the printer, graphics card, mouse and so on understands.
To make things easy, does windows say what it wants in some standard way. Printers and the other gear on the other hand are build differently and have all sorts of features, so the producer of the printer makes a program that reads what windows want to happen, and the driver does now take all these commands, and translate it to commands that fits exactly that printer, mouse and so on.
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