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  1. Re:Buy a laser printer by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Lexmark's DMCA-Abuse Case Coming To An End
    When stopped making laser printers they handed their business over to GCC Printers. If you are a Mac user, their printers work with Apple products better than any of the other printers on the market.

    Plus they were a nice place to work for a few years out of college. ;-)

  2. Re:Networked Laser Printers by Ster · · Score: 1 · on Finding a Reliable Laser Printer?

    I second the reccomendation for the Elite 12/600.

    I would say more, but jhealy1024 pretty much summed up my experiences with them. The worked beautifly without having to jump through any hoops. Add some extra RAM if you need it. They take the same toner cartridges as the LaserWriter 12/640, of which there are tons still in use, which means that people will be making toner for them forever. I'm 99% sure GCC bought the LaserWriter product line from Apple. If you used and liked the LW 12/640, the Elite 12/600 is just a faster version of the same goodness.

    http://gccprinters.com/printers/

    -Ster

  3. Re:apples and oranges... by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Innovators vs Copiers: HP vs Dell
    Having worked in the laser printer industry for a few years I can attest that very few companies actually manufacture their own printer engines. The only companies that I know that manufacture printer engines are Cannon, Fuji-Xerox, and Lexmark. HP, and my company GCC Printers put the firmware in, brand the printer, and sell it.

    The engine is good working mechanics, but until you put some embedded logic into the printer that knows how to interpret postscript or pcl, sending it print jobs won't do anything. We manufacture a circuit board that goes inside the printer. It has the printer ports (parallel, USB, network), processor, memory, software, and direct links to turn the various parts of the printer on and off (rollers, feeders, laser beam).

  4. Re:My experience by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Open-Source Software and "The Luxury of Ignorance"
    If the printer is connected directly to the network, you have to add it as a "local printer". Even in Windows XP. The network printer option is, as you point out, only for a printer connected to another computer.

    Office class printers from GCC Printers, HP, Xerox, and Lexmark all come with ethernet built in. Those printers are the ones that make no sense from the add printer wizard. As a result, the manufacturer usually provides a setup program on cd that simplifies the process.

  5. GCC Printers by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Color Laser Printer Recommendations?
    I used to work for GCC Printers. They offer a high quality product for less money than some of their competitors. (I know, I helped write the firmware for several of them.)

    Of interest to you is their new color model the Elite Color 16 DN

    • 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
    • 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
    • 256MB RAM standard
    • 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
    • TCP/IP
    • Rendezvous
    Order the Elite Color 16 DN
    • 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
    • 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
    • 256MB RAM standard
    • 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
    • TCP/IP
    • Rendezvous
    • EtherTalk&reg
    • Novell NetWare (IPX/SPX)
    • SNMP
    Order the Elite Color 16 DNe
  6. GCC Printers by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Color Laser Printer Recommendations?
    I used to work for GCC Printers. They offer a high quality product for less money than some of their competitors. (I know, I helped write the firmware for several of them.)

    Of interest to you is their new color model the Elite Color 16 DN

    • 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
    • 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
    • 256MB RAM standard
    • 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
    • TCP/IP
    • Rendezvous
    Order the Elite Color 16 DN
    • 16 pages per minute, Single-Pass Color
    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL 5c
    • 136 PostScript / 45 PCL fonts built-in
    • 256MB RAM standard
    • 10/100 Ethernet, USB 2.0, ECP Parallel
    • TCP/IP
    • Rendezvous
    • EtherTalk&reg
    • Novell NetWare (IPX/SPX)
    • SNMP
    Order the Elite Color 16 DNe
  7. Re:Color Laser Printeres by DeadSea · · Score: 1 · on Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess?
    Another lesser known brand: GCC Printers. (I used to work for them).

    Here is their (really nifty) new color product:

    Elite Color 16 DN - $2099 ( Order)

    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • 16 pages per minute
    • 256 MB RAM
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL5c
    • 136 built-in PostScript fonts/45 built-in PCL fonts
    • Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Bi-directional Parallel, USB 2.0
    • TCP/IP
    Elite Color 16 DNe - $2299 ( Order)
    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • 16 pages per minute
    • 256 MB RAM
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL5c
    • 136 built-in PostScript fonts/45 built-in PCL fonts
    • Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Bi-directional Parallel, USB 2.0
    • TCP/IP
    • EtherTalk&reg
    • Novell NetWare (IPX/SPX)
    • SNMP
  8. GCC Printers by DeadSea · · Score: 2, Informative · on Recommendations for High Volume Color Laser Printers?
    I worked for the company that developed this puppy. It's quite powerful and has great looking output.

    GCC Printers Elite Color 16 DN $2099

    • 1200 x 1200 dpi resolution
    • 16 pages per minute
    • 256 MB RAM
    • Max print area: 8.3" x 13.84"
    • Letter/A4, Legal, Executive, Envelope
    • 500-sheet Universal Tray
    • PostScript 3 and PCL5c
    • 136 built-in PostScript fonts/45 built-in PCL fonts
    • Ethernet 10/100BaseT, Bi-directional Parallel, USB 2.0
    • TCP/IP

    That should be plenty for a church.

  9. Re:So? by DeadSea · · Score: 2, Interesting · on LPD For Fun and MP3 Playing

    Its pretty easy to send a file to a unix print queue from Windows: http://gccprinters.com/support/doc/lprutil.html

  10. Newbie? I'd call her an expert! by DeadSea · · Score: 4, Interesting · on The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey
    She's installed half a dozen distributions. That's five more than I've ever installed. Such bravery.

    I have had similar frustrations trying to get my printer at home to work. I've never been able to do it properly. Its an HP USB inkjet and it works just find from Windows 98. I really wish I had a postscript laser printer, since those are so easy to set up from Linux. (Never mind that Windows makes it harder than it should be to install one.)

    As far as the CD burner goes, she had problems getting it to work on Redhat. I've found that whatever version comes with RedHat is pretty bad. Upgrading to the newest version of XCDRoast solved all my problems. They even have RPMs that are a breeze to install in RedHat. Yes you have to run it as root, but only once. You can give anybody permission to run it from its graphical interface.

  11. Alternative: GccPrinters.com by DeadSea · · Score: 2 · on Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit

    My current employer, GCC Printers (No relation to the compiler), does not key the cartridges sold with printers. Keying is typically done physically or electronically. GCC does neither.

  12. What do those who make the games really think? by DeadSea · · Score: 4 · on Computer, Arise From Your Grave
    I work for GCC Technolgies (formerly General Computer Corporation). GCC made classic arcade games such as Super Missile Attack, Ms Pac-Man, Food Fight, and Quantum.

    At one point GCC was sued by Atari for trademark infringment over some of these games, so I'm not sure who actually owns the rights to them now. GCC no longer does games. We now make laser printers. As far as I know, GCC has no plans to do anything with the old games.

    If you really want to know, let me know and I can ask the CEO about it all next time I see him.

  13. What do those who make the games really think? by DeadSea · · Score: 4 · on Computer, Arise From Your Grave
    I work for GCC Technolgies (formerly General Computer Corporation). GCC made classic arcade games such as Super Missile Attack, Ms Pac-Man, Food Fight, and Quantum.

    At one point GCC was sued by Atari for trademark infringment over some of these games, so I'm not sure who actually owns the rights to them now. GCC no longer does games. We now make laser printers. As far as I know, GCC has no plans to do anything with the old games.

    If you really want to know, let me know and I can ask the CEO about it all next time I see him.

  14. Hacker Speak by DeadSea · · Score: 2 · on Insanely Great Quickies
    I work for GCC Printers. (Nothing to do with your favorite compiler.) Our printer line is trademarked the "elite" line of printers.

    I was fairly dissappointed that the hacker speak does not translate elite into 31337. It seems to only do characters and has no recognition of common hacker words. Take a look at our 31337 21 N technical specs or our product line to see what I mean.