Re: Recommendations? NEC 860 vs. Lexmark Optra E?

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Keith Rohrer <http://www.uiuc.edu/~kwrohrer>
 > Date: Sat  Oct 12,  6:40pm
 >
 > I'm looking for a printer to use under Linux; this means GDI is useless
 > to me, but I don't need PostScript either.  While I don't want to pay
 > for PostScript in the printer, I don't want to pay the (vanishing?)
 > premium for 600 dpi consumables for 300 dpi output, which I hear means I
 > need PCL 5e, not PCL 4.5, emulation...  I've narrowed my search down to
 > the Lexmark Optra E (PCL 5e), and the NEC SuperScript 860 (PCL 4.5
 > :-().  The NEC is significantly faster, but unless someone comes up with
 > a ghostscript driver for PrintGear, only going to do 300 dpi for me.
 > 
 > Does anyone have any advice as to these two printers, and/or the
 > possibility of finding enough specs on PrintGear to write a 600 dpi
 > driver for it?
 > 
 > 	Keith
 > 
 > -- 
 > "... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab.
 >  I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate.
 >  All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last
 > week.
 >  Time to die...". - Peter Gutmann in alt.sysadmin.recovery

Hi.  Did you decide on a particular printer?  I'd be interested, too.

Thanks.