{"id":31722,"date":"2011-08-16T10:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T08:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31722"},"modified":"2011-09-05T08:42:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T06:42:54","slug":"apple-wants-to-do-away-with-printer-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/31722-apple-wants-to-do-away-with-printer-drivers.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple wants to do away with printer drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has published two patent applications filed by <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> on September 14, 2010, that aim to do away with printer drivers.<\/p>\n<p>The first patent includes various ways to avoid traditional print drivers, such as a \u201cdriverless printing technique\u201d which would access all the information required off the printer itself. Another method is similar to Google\u2019s cloud print, where Apple servers in the cloud would generate the required print data.<\/p>\n<p>The second patent application details a new \u201cdocument format key\u201d, which would provide all the necessary configuration settings including resolution, orientation and duplex support.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-20092427-37\/apple-looking-to-get-rid-of-printer-drivers\/?part=rss&amp;subj=news&amp;tag=2547-1_3-0-20\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has filed patents for technologies that aim to eliminate the need for printer drivers in the future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":28468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[605,467,3742,3744],"class_list":["post-31722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-patents","tag-printers","tag-printing-drivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}