Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Greg Pavelcak <gregpav@mediaone.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <= US$300 Laser Printers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009151136390.34240-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200009151557.JAA28200@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Nate Williams wrote:
> > I'm thinking about buying an inexpensive laser printer. By
> > inexpensive, I guess I mean cheaper than the HPs.
>
> I picked up a Xerox DocWriter on egghead.com with 8MB of memory,
> built-in ethernet, and Postscript for <$300. It's an out-dated model,
> but it works fine for me.
>
> The only gotcha is you need to install a text-postscript converter
> filter in LPR. :)
I just open up the file in netscape using a URL of
file:///home/doug/filename, then print from there. Works really well for
short text pages, which is about the only thing I print anyway.
Doug
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