Setting up NEC 1260 laser printer with Redhat 5.2

"Robert J. Hansen" <rjhan @inav.net> writes:

The problem is as stated in the Printing HOWTO:

  NEC SuperScript

     NEC's series of low-cost laser printers provides both PCL and
     PrintGear support and are generally attractive printers.
     Unfortunately, in many of these models, the PCL support is for
     PCL level 4.5, which allows printing at only 300dpi. PCL levels
     5e, 6, and above do allow for 600dpi output.

Unfortunately, I am not aware of any support for "Adobe PrintGear"
printers in Ghostscript.  The 1260 does appear to have a Postscript
option which would probably solve the problem, although not for free.

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"More compatible"?  If it's compatible with PCL (HP's version of
PostScript), then you're running it in a mode that it supports fully, so
where's the problem?

If your printer stops working, or prints funny, or you one day wake up
to find your printer possessed by the spirit of Alan Turing, then you've
got a problem.  Until then, just enjoy your printer.  :)

To the best of my knowledge nobody's written a NEC-1260 driver.  If you
want one, you're probably going to have to write it yourself.