Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread G. Crimp
On Wed, Dec 31, 1997 at 10:42:53AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:54:55PM -0800, 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

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread David Stern
On Thu, 01 Jan 1998 08:29:22 PST, G. Crimp wrote: OK, so I'm going to take one more kick at this. I almost returned the printe the other day, but decided to check out this PCL thing. The manual says that the NEC SS 860 has PCL emulation. Can anyone tell me if emulation means more crap on

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Jan 01, 1998 at 08:17:44PM -0800, David Stern wrote: [snip] Adobe markets PrintGear to the low end: primarily toward windoze and mac, with some mention of os/2, no unix. One might conjecture that PrintGear competes against Adobe's own PostScript at the low end, that

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back. Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good text and graphics output. Sigh... So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone suggest a good

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread William R Ward
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G. Crimp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. Crystal clear. Time to face the music and take the thing back. Too bad. Less than 400$, small, 8 ppm, and (apparently) very good text and graphics output. Sigh... So that we don't all have to learn from

Re: laser printers and linux

1998-01-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
William R Ward wrote: So that we don't all have to learn from your mistake ... can anyone suggest a good cheap laser printer that *will* work with Linux? I use an HP Laserjet 6MP (Postscript). It won't be the cheapest, but it is very reliable. In particular it has never given me any trouble

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 11:54:55PM -0800, 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

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 01:40:57PM +, David Stern wrote: 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. I was afraid of

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:53:50 PST, G. Crimp wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 01:40:57PM +, David Stern wrote: 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

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:58:51PM +, David Stern wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:53:50 PST, G. Crimp wrote: So how about the HP 6L. I've heard that it will work quite handily by emulating a 4L. Does anyone know what features of the 6L I'll be losing by having it emulate a 4L ? I've

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread G. Crimp
On Tue, Dec 30, 1997 at 07:58:51PM +, David Stern wrote: Like Hamish said, some go both ways (GDI and host based), so the symbol on the box isn't proof positive of exclusive GDI, however in this case I confirmed with NEC that it was. It is a nice printer, otherwise. So how about

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-31 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:25:25 PST, G. Crimp wrote: [..] Thanks everyone. BTW, what does GDI mean ? : Webopaedia Definition and Links : http://www.sandybay.com/pc-web/GDI_printer.htm : : GDI printer : : A printer that has built-in support for Windows Graphical : Device Interface (GDI).

laser printers and linux

1997-12-30 Thread G. Crimp
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

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: laser printers and linux

1997-12-30 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 30 Dec 1997 09:33:35 CST, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: G., [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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