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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. OT Rant: When did this become a support line? by Viqsi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From what I understand "Ask Slashdot" is supposed to be a section in which questions that might be of interest to a Large part of the geek readership here are placed.

    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 /.?

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  2. 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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  3. Can someone help me? by scott1853 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just finished building my Windows 2000 system with new HD,RAM,CDR,VID. The only problem is that I can't get my Adlib Gold card to work. Can somebody tell me exactly where I can obtain drivers. Actually I would prefer it if you just came to my house and installed them for me too. When you stop by, maybe you could show me how to use this weird "Start" button thingy. Thanks.

    DISCLAIMER: For those of you that will post serious responses, it's something called sarcasm. Look it up before replying.