From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jul 15 19:17:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26355 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 19:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA26350 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 19:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA18613; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:45:27 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807160215.LAA18613@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: "Ross Potts, CON, EDS/D-SIDDOMS" , FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printers In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:31:22 +0930." <19980716113122.W15083@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:45:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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