From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 7 14:57:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A6437B405 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 14:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.144.219]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20011107225721.NYYA5969.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:57:21 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fA7MvI828974; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:57:18 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05924; Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:56:48 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:56:47 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Michael Lucas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good printer & digital camera under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20011107225647.B391@localhost> References: <20011106080127.A95250@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20011106080127.A95250@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:01:27AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 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 On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 08:01:27AM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > Folks, > > I'm looking at getting the missus a digital camera for Christmas. > This would mean we'd need a decent printer. Our existing Canon > BJC-250 isn't bad for printing web pages, but it certainly isn't > photorealistic! > > What sort of printers have people had good luck with lately? Also, > what's a decent new digital camera that works with FreeBSD? I've had pretty good results from recent HP DeskJets (a 9xx model, but that was a few months ago so no doubt it no longer exists :-) This was on Windows, but I have read good reports about the quality that can be obtained from the latest GhostScript drivers. Take a look on http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ to see exactly what's supported. As for cameras, I'm a very happy owner of an Olympus C3030Z. The more recent 3040 and 4040 models are apparently just as good. These should work with the umass driver, so you can just mount the camera like a disk and copy the images off. The 3030 uses its own protocol but is supported by the gphoto port. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message