Re: laser printers and linux
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:33:35 CST, "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
> G., Crimp@freenet.victoria.bc.ca wrote:
> >
> > Seems to be a lot of questions about printers in the last week. I might as
> > well get in mine. NEC SuperScript 860. Will it work or not. I bought it
> > because a magazine review said it worked with OS's other than Windows (and
> > cheap and fast and generally highly recommended). I now have this sinking
> > feeling that it won't. The manual says that it "differs from other printer
> > in that it is driven directly by the CPU of your computer..." This sounds
> > suspiciously like what the Hardware-HOWTO says to avoid -- equipment that
> > has had its brains taken out and uses Windows driven software to do the job
Unfortunately, you have a windoze GDI printer, which means some
hardware functions are emulated in software to "more closely integrate
with" (be controlled by) windoze. The one I saw said so right on the
box.
The upshot is I contacted NEC back in September and they told me it was
only supported in windoze.
Try the comp.os.linux.hardware usenet group. I think I heard there
that a Brother printer was nicely priced. There were discussions about
other printers there too.
--
David Stern
kotsya@u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/
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