From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 9:54:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97AC15149 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 09:54:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id RAA19152; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:54:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 17:54:01 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Scott Mitchell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP printers & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19991004175400.C94096@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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