From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 27 20:03:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC1C16A504 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:03:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FEC43D5C for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:03:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (82-35-149-54.cable.ubr04.enfi.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.149.54]) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id iARK70K3034594; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:07:00 GMT (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Message-ID: <41A8DD9B.1020106@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:03:39 +0000 From: Mike Woods User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041112) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gabriel References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Printing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:03:49 -0000 gabriel wrote: >>It is said that HP has good support for nix on its printers. I'm about >>to purchase a printer thats listed on linuxprinting dot org but it >>utilizes usb. I'll be setting it up with cups, how smart is this? I'm >>gonna set it up in a network environment. Odds are it'll show as a usb parallel port (most usb printers do this) and being a HP it shouldn't pose any compatability problems (most use pcl/pjl) However if you let us know what printer it is you'll get a better answer :) ------------- Mike Woods IT Technician