From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun May 14 16:58:37 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F053D6C301 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 16:58:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from mail84c25.carrierzone.com (pmail98c25.carrierzone.com [64.29.147.168]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0642F3E2 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 16:58:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) X-Authenticated-User: tomdean.speakeasy.net Received: from [192.168.1.175] (24-113-100-60.wavecable.com [24.113.100.60]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail84c25.carrierzone.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id v4EGwWT3024013 for ; Sun, 14 May 2017 16:58:33 +0000 Subject: Re: Printer advice To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: "Thomas D. Dean" Message-ID: <43e9f9c6-b392-2c46-f692-2e25f3c8a3cd@speakeasy.org> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 09:58:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.2 cv=MNUQoIRl c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=QLVEBHxtHloZH0fLpu6Vtw==:117 a=QLVEBHxtHloZH0fLpu6Vtw==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=UNWf5WQ7AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=DJ1wpzrfjZHg2QmtTGUA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=TmY6P1tBX-PGzTCW-pm6:22 a=IjZwj45LgO3ly-622nXo:22 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020203.59188CBA.0044, ss=1, re=0.000, recu=0.000, reip=0.000, cl=1, cld=1, fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 16:58:37 -0000 On 05/14/2017 01:34 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > My luck with HP has been bad, enough to dissuade me from buying any more HP products. I have HP LaserJet Professional M1212nf MFP, and the first several attempts were fruitless, in both NetBSD and FreeBSD. I finally got it to print in NetBSD through cups with a special PPD file, think FreeBSD might also work with the same PPD file. Only Ethernet worked, USB didn't. I am rebuilding FreeBSD installations after getting nonbootable results updating NetBSD (version 7.99.71 of current branch). Then I intend to rebuild many packages including cups and hplip. I never got scanning or fax from computer to work. One adverse factor is the need for a proprietary binary plugin. I was on Xerox website and more favorably impressed, but didn't buy the printer because I already have that HP multifunction printer. > > > Have you tried using the printer with hplip ? hplip gives you every single HP function available and usually works very well. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Experience varies. I have never had an HP failure and, with the proper setup, alyways seem to produce good copy. Tom Dean