From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 1 10:40:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F54637B503 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cello.qnet.com (stork@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29113; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:40:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (stork@localhost) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA28717; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:40:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cello.qnet.com: stork owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 10:40:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Heredity Choice To: Janko van Roosmalen Cc: Chip , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" , "seafug@dub.net" Subject: Re: Printer recommendations? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Most of the cheaper printers are Winprinters, the technical term is "host dependent," and will not work with a real operating system. You can get a list of printer performance under Linux on: http://lhd.datapower.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=10&orderby=7 Printers that seem to do best are: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 882C, HP 660CSe, HP 2100M, HP 812C, Lexmark Optra S, and Lexmark E310. Some of the HPs are inkjet; both Lexmarks are laser. Paul Smith stork@qnet.com On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Janko van Roosmalen wrote: > You have to find out which printers are supported by "ghostscript". There > are a lot of "windows-only" printers on the market. I do not have the > URL of the ghostscript home-page, but it is not difficult to find with a > search engine. The Linux Printing-HOWTO (www.linuxdoc.org) also has > information about printers. Linux uses the BSD style of printing. > > ===Janko van Roosmalen - Vught - Netherlands=== > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Chip wrote: > > > > I am looking at replacing my old epson 400 with a new printer, > > a color ink-jet. I looked at the handbook hardware compatibility > > list and there are no printers listed, so I guess this means > > just about everything is okay? I am interested in printing some > > typical text documents, html, web pages, occassionaly pictures in > > gif, jpg, png or whatever format. > > I am open to suggestions - what are you guys using and how well > > does it work for you? > > This printer will be shared with other pc's running win95 and > > win98. > > > > -- > > Chip W. > > www.wiegand.org > > Alternative Operating Systems > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message