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.
I have not gone any further than the manual yet because I have 20 days to return it (well 16 now I guess), but if I crack the toner, I'll have to replace it. I am not too keen on that until I am sure it will work because a new toner cartridge will cost me nearly half what I payed for the printer. So, anyone have one that they use under Linux for more than just oridnary ascii text stuff ? Anticipating an unhappy answer, I have a follow-up question. Any recommendations for a cheap fast laser that puts out excellent text and nice graphics ? I've been to the aforementioned HOWTO and to a ghostscript compatibility list, but I can't believe that there are so few compatible printers. The only HP lasers mentioned there are no longer on HP product list. Someone mentioned an HP 6L on the list recently that doesn't appear on the lists, so there must be more useable printers out there. TIA, -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
