From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 20:19:39 2002 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 7E17F37B404 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA53943E3B for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 20:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAP4JVgx063958 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:19:31 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAP4JVRV063957 for FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:19:31 -0600 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: David Kelly To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:19:31 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20021124194520.A24648@mail.hitmedia.com> In-Reply-To: <20021124194520.A24648@mail.hitmedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200211242219.31033.dkelly@HiWAAY.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote: > Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? > > I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week. > > Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible? > or is there some spec I need to look for? > > I assume parallel port is still the way to go > or is USB really ready on FreeBSD? The most painless way to print within FreeBSD is with a Postscript printer which speaks lpd protocol on ethernet. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message