Old NEC Printer on Win2k? 29
Ravagin asks: "I am deeply in love with my Dell Inspiron 8100 running Windows 2000. I have a perfectly good NEC Silentwriter SuperScript 610Plus that I want to use; however, NEC's support site has nothing for Windows 2000 (the 610plus win95/98 drivers return a Windows version error). It's supposed to be HP LaserJet IIP compatible, but I've had no luck getting that to work. Google hasn't helped, either. Does anyone have any useful experience or sites for getting this old, 'unsupported' printer to play nice with Win2k?"
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Note, I'm a freebsd nerd, though I use windows for workstation purposes.
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Of cause I could be wrong
OT Rant: When did this become a support line? (Score:4, Insightful)
Most of what I've been seeing here lately, though, is what amounts to tech support requests.
Don't we have, like IRC channels and message boards for that sort of thing? Why put it on
Re:OT Rant: When did this become a support line? (Score:1)
It seems like filler. It's for when
We will justify throwing cash at osdn by saying, well they did post 15 articles yesterday, I got my moneys worth!
When did this become a MICROSOFT support line? (Score:2, Insightful)
I don't like the implications this statement makes. I find there are many valuable things that are learned in "best hardware/software/approach" for application questions or for solutions for not-so-common or easily solved problems. They don't get covered in the other sections because either its a question, or its subjective opinion, or just does not fall into a category. Also,
But I would not want "Ask Slashdot" to be a "Duh, how do I do this" section.
It is EGREGIOUS to be using this section to give tech support for WINDOZE questions! You shouldn't be using the
Re:OT Rant: When did this become a support line? (Score:2)
2001-10-22 16:54:41 How do you get started in Consulting? (askslashdot,news) (rejected) I'm trying to move to self-employed status, and was looking for advice from fellow /.ers, but apparently Ask Slashdot is becoming a tech support bulletin board.
Re:OT Rant: When did this become a support line? (Score:2)
*sigh*
Laser Jet IIP (Score:4, Informative)
I have a Xerox printer with the same problem. Your printer and mine use a proprietary rendering system called Adobe PrintGear to control the printer, this system was used in a number of cheap laser printers.
There is no way around this, since Adobe no longer supports it and the vendors who developed the drivers have no knowledge of it.
Like a winmodem - a winprinter (Score:1)
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Cloves ? MMM - Spicy, makes me think that tommorow Pumpkin Pie day!
But in anycase, anytime you plan on testing random drivers with a printer, you should try to reduce the number of pages in the paperfeed bin to 2. Also should you wnat to try this you can get the drivers from the NEC Website [nectech.com].
If you want to the Adobe PrintGear route, you could maybe try the NT 4 drivers for that engine which you can get from here [vobis.de].
NOTE: the 860 also uses Adobe Print Gear, so 860 (also NT 4.0) driver directly from NEC would be my first bet, but this one is dated later - and who knows, it might work if the NEC860 driver doesn't.
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Jumper (Score:2, Informative)
I had to change a jumper or dip (can't remember) on the back to switch it to LaserJet II mode.
-Dave
Try www.linuxprinting.org... (Score:2, Informative)
sound like "How can I print in Windows" but
this page gives you the details you need to know
when you try to use it with a different or more
generic driver.
If queried about your printer, linuxprinting says:
--> Traditional "GDI" printer;
so you are dependant on drivers you get from
the vendor. Therefore the printer has been sorted into the category "Paperweight".....
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How's that for jargon!
Just about every printer made... (Score:3, Informative)
Another thought -- Set up an NT4.0 print server to handle it. We have some of them around here for precisely that reason.
- Freed
Same printer. No solution. (Score:3, Informative)
In order to use it with Win2K (and Linux), I bought a $50 P133, installed Win95, and set that machine up as a Print Server. The SuperScript drivers allow you to print PostScript, but I just sent PCL5 at the box, and it worked well. It was fun using a Win95 machine as a front-end to my printer so I could print from Linux. That's about your only bet at this point.
Second: These questions really don't belong on Slashdot. Please quit posting them.
Re:Same printer. No solution. (Score:2)
Condsidering that I've learned a lot from the answers I'd have to disagree with you.
Besides, Slashdot has Jon Katz, so it's not as though there are any particular standards to adhere to.
Can someone help me? (Score:5, Funny)
DISCLAIMER: For those of you that will post serious responses, it's something called sarcasm. Look it up before replying.
Re:Can someone help me? (Score:1)
Try www.tek-tips.com. You can post your support questions for Windows as well as Linux queries there. The folks are quite knowledgeable there and quite friendly. And there is also the tried and true google.com searches *grin*
My two bits
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