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Old NEC Printer on Win2k?

Posted by Cliff on from the I-thought-this-wasn't-supposed-to-happen-with-2k dept.

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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  1. Laser Jet IIP by duffbeer703 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can use LaserJet IIP drivers, which use PCL 3 i believe. The only problem is, it will only print at 300dpi.

    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.

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