From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 30 15: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F2E37B503 for ; Sat, 30 Sep 2000 15:04:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds102-123.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.123.102] with ESMTP id AAA16799 (8.8.5/1.13); Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:04:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01354; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:04:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from janko@compuserve.com) X-Authentication-Warning: parmenides.utp.net: janko owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:04:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Janko van Roosmalen X-Sender: janko@parmenides.utp.net To: Chip Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "seafug@dub.net" Subject: Re: Printer recommendations? In-Reply-To: <39D65460.E39C7428@wiegand.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You have to find out which printers are supported by "ghostscript". There are a lot of "windows-only" printers on the market. I do not have the URL of the ghostscript home-page, but it is not difficult to find with a search engine. The Linux Printing-HOWTO (www.linuxdoc.org) also has information about printers. Linux uses the BSD style of printing. ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Chip wrote: > > I am looking at replacing my old epson 400 with a new printer, > a color ink-jet. I looked at the handbook hardware compatibility > list and there are no printers listed, so I guess this means > just about everything is okay? I am interested in printing some > typical text documents, html, web pages, occassionaly pictures in > gif, jpg, png or whatever format. > I am open to suggestions - what are you guys using and how well > does it work for you? > This printer will be shared with other pc's running win95 and > win98. > > -- > Chip W. > www.wiegand.org > Alternative Operating Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message