Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:54:01 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP printers & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19991004175400.C94096@florence.pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> References: <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
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Buy one with postscript and a jet direct engine if possible. You'll be able to speak directly to it on your ethernet then :). If it doesn't come with postscript then Ghostscript can do PS -> PJL, and I do that on my one laserjet 4L at home. If it doesn't had a jetdirect you can always plug it into the freebsd box's printer port :) Joe On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 04:43:48PM +0100, Scott Mitchell wrote: > Having given in to my SO's nagging and decided to buy a new printer, my > next task is to make sure it works with our favourite OS before handing > over the cash... The printer in question will probably be from HP simply > because I've never owned/used one that gave me any trouble, whereas the > same cannot be said for certain others :-( Anyway, looking through the > specs for the current crop of Deskjets, many of them apparently use > something called 'Printing Performance Architecture' -- these also seem to > be the models that don't even offer Mac support, so I assume the 'Printing > Performance Architecture' is some kind of poxy WinPrinter thing that is > best avoided. The rest of the range talks PCL Level 3 which I believe is > fine for tools such as GhostScript et. al. > > Any confirmation that these are valid assumptions would be appreciated. > Please cc: to me as I'm not subscribed to -questions these days. > > Many TIA, > > Scott > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just > Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" > s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > > > ------ FreeBSD UK User's Group - Mailing List ------ > http://listserver.uk.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-users -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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