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 recommended). I now have this sinking > feeling that it won't. The manual says that it "differs from other printers > 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.
Ah, sounds like the early Sun SparcPrinter. It was simply a raster device. The manual for it said that if you needed faster performance you could "simply" upgrade the server! I don't believe that particular incarnation any longer exists. Take heart though, in the case of Linux this is not necessarily a bad thing. If you're printing stuff from ghostscript (and not using pass-through fonts) everything is essentially being rasterized anyway. Now, this doesn't mean that anyone's working on a driver for it. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .