Conecting new printer to a 286

[Philip Pemberton]

On 02/07/10 21:15, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Indeed.  Even the ones that explicitly state that they support PCL or
> Postscript often do so only through a driver that does all of the
> interpretation.

I disagree.

Most of the Kyocera laser printers speak PCL and PostScript (or rather 
Kyocera's implementation of PostScript, a.k.a. KPDL). The FS-C5200dn 
sitting next to me most certainly does, because I've catted LaTeX 
"dvips" PostScript output to it via netcat. Mainly because CUPS was 
playing silly gits.

Disadvantage is that it's USB/LAN only. No Centronics port, but it 
speaks most of the major networking protocols (even stuff like Netware...)

An LJ3 or LJ4 is probably the best option, though -- those things are 
built like tanks.

-- 
Phil.
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