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  Msg # 61 of 12811 on ZZUK4448, Saturday 8-29-25, 12:40  
  From: MARTIN BROWN  
  To: JON RIBBENS  
  Subj: Re: As predicted. VPN ban incoming,  
 From: '''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk 
  
 On 28/08/2025 13:20, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 > On 2025-08-28, Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote: 
 >> On 28/08/2025 09:43, Roland Perry wrote: 
 >>> In message , at 13:53:20 on Thu, 21 
 >>> Aug 2025, JNugent  remarked: 
 >>>>> A friend of a friend does everything on an iPhone, and today is 
 claiming 
 >>>>> they can't read pdf's and could they be sent documents in a slightly 
 >>>>> less obscure format, pretty please. 
 >>>>> 
 >>>>> Not that this would help much, because the document in question 
 requires 
 >>>>> a wet signature, and they don't have a printer (I assume you can attach 
 >>>>> a printer to an iPhone if you try hard enough, but I've never seen 
 one). 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Almost any modern home printer will work via wi-fi. 
 >> 
 >> Some additional OEM driver is generally needed to use a printer though. 
 > 
 > No, that's the point of Apple AirPrint, that it doesn't need drivers. 
  
 It needs the Apple AirPrint driver built *into* the printer. 
  
 Or some PC hardware and driver shim that makes any ordinary USB 
 connected or network printer compatible with Apple's proprietary 
 "standard". 
  
 None of my printers are recent enough to offer AirPrint directly. 
  
 -- 
 Martin Brown 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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