> Most printers will do their own rendering, it's not often that a text document gets pre-rendered by the OS.
Without surveying the industry, I doubt that's accurate. Most inexpensive home printers sold to purchasers of Windows PCs are GDI printers. Part of the cost savings associated with those comes from using the PC to render the document.
Most printers will do their own rendering, it's not often that a text document gets pre-rendered by the OS.
If it was printed straight from WordPad without being converted to an image, there's no artefact from the host OS, there.