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What would be a good colour printer for a Macintosh IIci?
Now THAT sounds like a plan! THX, oP! [
] ]'>The only color printer I had until somebody gave me a Huge@$$ Roland CAMM-Jet CJ-60 was the original Epson Color Stylus with the LocalTalk interface option, I got both on clearance at Staples.
Product Brochure: https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/styc__/styc__sl.pdf
User Manual: https://files.support.epson.com/pdf/styc__/styc__u3.pdf
I wish I still had it, but it went down the storage room whirlpool. If the cartridges are still available, I'd snipe another one set up like that of eBay in a heartbeat. The driver didn't support the 68000, but I noodled out the workaround for the unimplemented trap error when the PowerBook 100 printed successfully now and again. Highly recommended!
We have an HP Color LaserJet 1518ni, which has PostScript Level 3 emulation, which probably isn't the same thing as having it built in, is it?
That being said, I guess it won't work under Windows 9x, DOS, or Mac OS 9.x.x and lower?
As modern printers go, though, it's perfect. And it works pretty well on modern computers.
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That being said, I guess it won't work under Windows 9x, DOS, or Mac OS 9.x.x and lower?
As modern printers go, though, it's perfect. And it works pretty well on modern computers.
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It is built-in, it just means the Postscript interpreter isn't written by Adobe themselves. I think HP uses Phoenix Page these days. Given how good 3rd party implementations are (see Ghostscript), I wouldn't worry too much about it.
I have really moved on from printing, so I will not be checking in on this thread too often. Please note I already have an inkjet printer and don't want to spend $$$ on a laser printer.
Yeah, but I meant that it's not a host-based printer like many printers are these days. Having the formatter on the printer means you can print to it directly and not worry about the driver, so long as it's sending PostScript. Many laser printers these days (especially HP) require the use of platform specific host based drivers. The printers are useless on anything that isn't modern.
Annoyingly, the host-based printers often stop working for one reason or another until the drivers are updated to work with whatever OS you're using. Our LaserJet 3600s often stop working right after an OS X point update. We have to wait weeks (sometimes months, as it was for 10.9) for an updated HP driver. As printers arbitrarily labeled "old" by HP and they stop updating the drivers, they're simply useless and you'll have to buy a new printer... which I'm certain is the entire point.
Even though the Xerox printers aren't host based, Xerox has no problems putting out an updated printer drive the same day as an OS update. And even if there was a driver issue, I can always print as Generic Postscript.