Last night, I tried to set up an older printer to a new laptop, but I kept running into driver issues. I’ve always dealt with that, but never understood what it was and why it was necessary.
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The operating system uses the driver to operate the printer the same way you use a steering wheel and pedals to operate a car. Under the hood different cars could work very differently, but the interface is the same for everybody. The same is true for computer hardware. Through the driver, the computer tells the printer what to do, but not how to do it.
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