well, inspite of what your watch or pager might say...it's
certainly past monday :-)  so (drum-roll) here are the
voting results...along with some 'comments'....

release the hp-ib drivers?  2 yes votes, 7 no votes.  the
'no's have it!  there was also one vote for finding some
sort of hardware (black-box-ish) solution.  there were two
votes for enabling parallel printing.  what is *very* clear
is the need for robust, dependable printing!

> The *right* answer is to address the printing issue.  This is something
> HP heard quite loud and clear at the recent meetings.  From HP's reaction I
> would anticipate that they will be doing something in this area to help
> customers resolve this problem.  And I too believe that this is the right
> direction.  It is certainly better to address the printer issues and move
> forward to the new bus architecture than carry along an outdated technology
> and continue to stay behind the other industry leaders.
>
> The big problem is the loss of CIPER protocol printing and the new HP
> printers not supported by the spooler. That's the issue that needs to be on the
> ballot.
>
(i'll add an 'amen' to that :-)

> make HP-IB go away
>
:-)

unless there are any violent disagreements (hi, denys :-) --
i'll think up some clever wording for another ballot item
and get it submitted.  *but* this (imo) is really a sig
print issue, so i'm going to toss the ball over to steve
hammond.                      - d

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