Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:45:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Ross Potts, CON, EDS/D-SIDDOMS" <rpotts@med.osd.mil>, FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printers Message-ID: <199807160215.LAA18613@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:31:22 %2B0930." <19980716113122.W15083@freebie.lemis.com>
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> I've heard very good things about the Epson Stylus range, and may buy > one as a result. Well, we have an Epson Stylus II and it prints quite well, but doesn't feed special (eg coated) paper terribly well. > A propos PostScript, as Randal recommended: fine, if you have the > money. Otherwise, especially if you don't print much PostScript, > ghostscript will do just on just about any printer. Yes, get apsfilter which uses ghostscript and various filters to translate just about anything you print (like gzip gifs for example :) into something your printer can manage. Its quite extensible (I added html support via html2ps) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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