From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 0:54:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E88EE37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hotmail.com (f266.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7F6743E7B for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:54:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerald_stoller@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 00:54:23 -0700 Received: from 209.246.98.206 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:54:23 GMT X-Originating-IP: [209.246.98.206] From: "gerald stoller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printers, advice on buying re some features Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 03:54:23 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Aug 2002 07:54:23.0632 (UTC) FILETIME=[F6E01100:01C248E7] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am planning to buy a Hewlett-Packard printer (my old one died) for home use, so I want something inexpensive; my home system is has a large hard-disk with the first slice holding Microsoft Windows 98 and the second slice holding FreeBSD. The printer should work (at least similarly if not) identically in both operating systems. I am also looking for it to have the following features (some of which are provided by software) Capability of printing multiple pages per sheet. Capability of printing (a file) on both sides of the sheets. Color and B&W printing. HP has told me that there is LINUX code to implement these features in a UNIX environment. [The capability of printing (a file) on both sides of the sheets is a little tricky, I saw one printer (don’t recall what it was) where when I asked it to print an 8 page document as 4 pages per sheet double-sided, on one side of the sheet I had pages 1, 3, 5, & 7, and on the other side of the sheet I had pages 2, 4, 6, & 8; definitely not what I wanted. I want to print an 20 page document as 4 pages per sheet double-sided, and get one sheet with pages 1-4 & 5-8 on it, another sheet with pages 9-12 & 13-16 on it, and a final sheet with pages 17-20 on it.] Which HP models have such LINUX code? The following models (among others) have these features and are low-priced (but some may be hard to find): 842, 920, 940, 5550, so I am concentrating my focus on them. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message