From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 9:43:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5755F37B412 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7FGh3h92176; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:43:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <001501c12556$65e4e780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <001501c12556$65e4e780$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:43:00 -0400 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: RE: What is the magical incantation necessary to print to /dev/ulpt0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:49 PM -0700 8/14/01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >I'd be interested in models from the Lexmark side. A number of >years back when I was supporting printers in a corporate setting >I dealt with only HP and so never learned what was hot on the >Lexmark side. We have bought a fair number of lexmarks here at RPI, and I like them a lot. They also have a new "cheaper" postscript laser printer for home use, which is to say, for around $800 (as opposed to $1200 or more for heftier printers). They tend to have a "series" of printers which are all out at the same time, with varying speeds. The Lexmark Optra S's are probably what's seen a lot in the used market place. I would prefer models which end in a '5' over models which end in a '0'. We have a lot of 1855's, for instance, and we've pushed a lot of paper through them. I should note that I work on the "software side" of printer support, and from that angle I prefer lexmarks over HP's. HP's seem to always have some little quirk which gets in my way... The guys who do the hardware support for RPI would tell you that HP's are easier to fix if anything does go wrong with them. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message