From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 13:25:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFD3B37B5D4 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 13:25:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (right/backatcha) with ESMTP id e4LKHMG00347; Sun, 21 May 2000 16:17:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 16:17:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Kent Stewart , "Heiner [G_tte]" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 720C In-Reply-To: <200005211829.NAA84620@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry Dunham wrote: > How does one tell when shopping for used printers which ones are > winprinters and which ones are real printers? Is there a list available > somewhere? Many programs generate PostScript output, so having a printer with a built-in interpreter for that--whether written by Adobe or a clone--is the nicest thing. A pitfall there is that there are Level 1, Level 2 and (wait for it) Level 3 PostScript. Trying to print Level 3 files on a printer that only supports Level 1 or 2 will just get you an error message. If section 9.4.1.3 of the Handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing-advanced.html#PRINTING-ADVANCED-PS ) didn't exist, I would attempt to write something similar here. :-) The last I checked, the PPA project was said to be usable but only in monochrome. Also H-P's license for its Windows driver prohibits use on more than one computer--so if, for example, you attached a PPA printer to a computer running FreeBSD and shared it via Samba with several computers that ran Windows, you'd be violating the license (IANAL but perhaps such restrictions are legally untenable in parts of the world). If you install the latest port of ghostscript (/usr/ports/print/ghostscript6) it'll present you with a list of supported output devices. I don't know where to find a nice summary of the capabilities and limitations of the various drivers, but there are comments in the sources which should give you an idea. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message