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 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
