From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 16 00:22:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28542 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:22:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28536 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5688) with SMTP id JAA15804; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:18:28 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:18:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Ross Potts, CON, EDS/D-SIDDOMS" cc: FreeBSD-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printers In-Reply-To: <199807151916.JAA05969@oldyeller.comtest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ghostscript is about the only tool that converts from postscript to anything proprietary. Pull down one of the latest version and see what it supports. An Epson Stylus Pro XL+ delivers good performance (with Sparc IPX doin the conversion) and reasonable output. A native postscript printer is better of course, as is a decent networked printer. In the networked ones, try QMS. HP I wouldn't because they seem to have trouble getting the basic system right, as in if you see text print it as text instead of locking up soldily (once in a while). > > I'm looking to buy a printer and was wondering what some of the better color > > printers were that are compatible to FreeBSD and windows? > > > > Get a postscript color printer. I have a several Tektronix color printers. > They are all networked and have Postscript Level 2 built-in. They work > great with all my apps. under both FreeBSD and Windows. In fact I > have Samba(MS file and print sharing) services running under FreeBSD > and have the printers shared to my Win95 machines. > > Randal Masutani > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ComTest Technologies, Inc. > 3049 Ualena St., Suite 1005 > Honolulu, Hawaii 96819 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > -- building: 27A address: STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy tel.: +39 332 78 9549 fax.: +39 332 78 9185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message