Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 14:48:09 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Rod <rod@predictivedialers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP 4500 laser printer (plain or 4500N) will it work? Message-ID: <36D08D29.E2DA562B@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990221150924.29728D-100000@ip70.net20483206.cr.sk.ca>
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I think the HP 4500N is the option for a couple of reasons. Most of that vintage HP printers support Adobe Postscript level 2 and would work from any of your systems. If you mount it on the FreeBSD box you have to have at least two paths depending on whether the file is text or raw. FreeBSD doesn't speak EMF or any of the other flavors the Windows wants to use. A networked printer can handle both and you can build the appropriate filters into your FreeBSD setups. Everything breaks apart on the little bits like <cr><lf> versus <lf> and adding a <ff> at the end to make it eject a page. I have used Win98 to send postscript to an HP printer; however, Win95 did not deal with features such as duplexing very well. The 4500 doesn't duplex and so that isn't a problem. I'm looking at 4000 for home and it will have duplexing. My home network is all 100baseT and that is a different option. At any rate, from persoanl experience, you could set use defaults to set your printer up one way or the other, which worked on one system or the other but not both. Kent Rod wrote: > > Hi everyone! > > For the company I work for (I got them to switch to FreeBSD, a win for > us!) we have decided we need a workgroup colour laser printer. > > After looking at what's out there that fits in our budget The HP 4500 > is our only choice. > > However, I have read in Usenet that FreeBSD 3.0 does not support Parallel > ECP(forgive my terminonlogy) bidirectional printers. (the 4500 has an ECP > parallel port) > > If that is accurate I was thinking I would connect the printer as a > network printer and talk to it through tcp/ip. Which would be the HP 4500N > model-- a little more expensive but worth it if I knew it would work. > > Could someone give me some guidence? If I can't use FreeBSD I could put > it on a windoze machine but that is not desirable. Worse, the new boss is > really pushing that we switch to Red Hat as he feels it will support more > equipment. > > Thank you for your comments! > > Rod > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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