From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Sep 15 11:39:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8577C37B424 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA34308; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:38:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:38:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Nate Williams Cc: Greg Pavelcak , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <= US$300 Laser Printers In-Reply-To: <200009151557.JAA28200@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message