From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 3 12:48:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54DA1537C for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 12:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from krispyos@ix.netcom.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA18441; Mon, 3 May 1999 14:48:30 -0500 (CDT) From: krispyos@ix.netcom.com Received: from lex-ky2-18.ix.netcom.com(204.31.246.82) by dfw-ix16.ix.netcom.com via smap (V1.3) id rma018403; Mon May 3 14:48:19 1999 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 15:49:50 -0000 (GMT) To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: RE: Printers for Freebsd Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-May-99 Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On 02-May-99 krispyos@ix.netcom.com wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I'm looking in to buying a new printer for my freebsd system at home. >> However, I'm not familiar with printers that freebsd supports and could >> use some advice on what type to get. It must be color and within the >> 200$ price range. > > try to see if it supports Postscript natively, saves a tonload of hell ;) > > --- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai(at)wxs.nl Actually I found support for my current printer thanks to the help of a friend who saw one of my postings on this list several months ago. I currently have a HP deskjet 712c printer which uses the new PPA protocol. He found a website, http://www.httptech.com/ppa, that has software which allows me to talk to the printer. Although color is not currently supported it is in the works. Thanks for all the help, Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message