From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 20:45:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 6006A16A417 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:45:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewgould@yahoo.com) Received: from web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com [66.163.179.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA42B43D46 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:45:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrewgould@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 86715 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Sep 2006 20:45:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Y0QMtq97j5992lAOh4J+GltHoBpNmRdX8V0siMW4nXdpMsd5sFj/bWnluqGdjSx4nb+8ruKgpAVNrzNJuZ/H5gPmXzC8NwVk96fBUE5+GItCWYh5uE9MBi3mR3fBMJt0JEQYwSNKuqtw1/lmm6THBodxOFzvVy3QtnRzhumEZmo= ; Message-ID: <20060929204558.86713.qmail@web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [206.255.31.21] by web35307.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:45:58 PDT Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:45:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Gould To: "Christopher M. Hobbs" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060929190305.GF818@siloamsprings.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: printer recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:45:59 -0000 --- "Christopher M. Hobbs" wrote: > Could anyone recommend a good desktop laser jet > printer that is known to > work under FreeBSD. I don't mind if it's an older > model. I'd like to > go cheap with it. > > I will be printing black and white planning sheets, > and portions of > books. > > Is there a list of printers that are useable under > FreeBSD somewhere? > > Thank you for your time! > cmh > -- > Christopher M. Hobbs > IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs > chobbs@siloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136 > If the printer works with Linux over the network or via parallel port, then it probably works fine with FreeBSD. If a USB printer works with Linux but not with FreeBSD, you can often get around the USB incompatibility by attaching the printer to a print server. Here's a searchable database of printers that are compatible with Linux. http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi I have a Oki B4350 printer (mono color laser) and an HP Photosmart 7150 that are attached to a Hawking Technology HPS12U print server. I use CUPS for printing in FreeBSD. This setup works great! Both HP and Okidata have been good about releasing PPD files (printer configuration files used by CUPS) for their printers. It's good that you're only looking for a laser printer. I've heard that compatibility issues with all-in-one printers can be a real pain. I hope this helps. Andrew L. Gould