From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 1:15:49 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 5CD5C37B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:15:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.hitmedia.com (mail.hitmedia.com [205.162.11.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBDAA43E4A for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:15:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd@hitmedia.com) Received: (qmail 25267 invoked by uid 0); 25 Nov 2002 09:15:46 -0000 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 01:15:46 -0800 From: BSD baby To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20021125011546.A1623@mail.hitmedia.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ljfong@hotmail.com on Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:11:24PM -0800 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 > And, the most important of all, check the hardware compatibility list of > printers suitable for FreeBSD. Ah! That's what I was looking for! Saw no mention of it in the FreeBSD Handbook or the "hardware compatibility" link from freebsd.org I did find this: http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html Seems the HP Laserjet 1200 would be good for me, since it's Postscript-ready. > >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? > > > >Main thing I want to do is print PDF files, in batches. > >(Send a directory of 300 different PDF files to the printer at once.) > > > >Are there any command-line tools to do that? > >or do you need an X11 Adobe Acrobat app? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message