From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 22 10:16:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA12314 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA12304 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu) Received: from emily.oit.umass.edu by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-10 #20973) with ESMTP id <0ELL005O2S28PR@rfd1.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:15:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by emily.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA08013 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:15:44 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 13:15:44 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Inexpensive Printers that work. To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Happy holidays again. Since I'm doing some hardware shopping, I might as well get your views about printers too. I have an old Epson lq-800. I installed apsfilter and tried printing to it. The result is slow, poor quality, form-feed- past-every-other-page-even-with-"suppress-form-feed"-in-the-printcap output. I know the printer can do better, I've seen it produce better stuff with some other OS. Is there some software I can add to get better results with this old pin printer. If not, can you recommend an ink-jet or a low-end laser that will give good results. Think inexpensive please. I really don't use a printer much, but I still haven't trained myself to do all my editing at the screen. Eventually I still need paper in my hands. Oh well. Thanks. Greg