Well Apple has a couple of patents that suggest cutting out the need for printer drivers, one of which involves a “driverless printing technique” where the necessary information required would be extracted from the printer itself.
The second technique will sound familiar to Google users, as it involves cloud printing. The patent suggests that the printer data will be sent to the cloud, which would then generate the print data. Basically what that entails is that you send your document to the cloud, which will then convert it into the necessary data/format for your printer to print.
