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 troubl

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

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 goo

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 > Post

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

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.

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).

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 ab

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 ?

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) windo

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 afra

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

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 worke

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 high

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 sinki