From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 15 19:10:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B400D6EE25 for ; Mon, 15 May 2017 19:10:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from smtp1.irishbroadband.ie (smtp2.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 271BD1632 for ; Mon, 15 May 2017 19:10:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from [89.127.62.20] (helo=smtp.lan.sohara.org) by smtp1.irishbroadband.ie with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1dAL5B-0005xq-2m; Mon, 15 May 2017 19:51:01 +0100 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.89 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1dAL6C-000FnG-QU; Mon, 15 May 2017 18:52:04 +0000 Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 19:50:54 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Paul Pathiakis Subject: Re: Printer advice Message-Id: <20170515195054.3a97b56ccbbb246888be2d24@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <4f51c091-0896-22f9-dbf4-6210dac45853@yahoo.com> References: <20170514171907.180a99c2.freebsd@edvax.de> <9fabe602-3f0b-0241-0f49-fb0c0fb27268@bananmonarki.se> <4f51c091-0896-22f9-dbf4-6210dac45853@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.3) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 19:10:45 -0000 On Mon, 15 May 2017 13:43:17 -0400 Paul Pathiakis via freebsd-questions wrote: > Hi, > > Something I caution people about.... although the printers on > openprinting.org work for Linux, there are issues. Be careful to read > if any of them have additional 'linux' driver software... aka not being > completely open. They provide binary drivers (like some from Brother) > and cause issues. So far, HP has done well with HPLIP, but they really I got the Brother binary drivers working easily enough by running CUPS in a Centos userland in a jail. In theory they can be got to work in a FreeBSD install of CUPS but you have to get everything into place by hand and I never managed to get it right. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith