Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 11:55:35 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: printer recommendation? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950616115242.4650B-100000@cancer> In-Reply-To: <199506160300.UAA13976@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>
> I am planning to buy a postscript printer. Is there a significance
> performance advantage of having an ethernet interface or how
> fast can we drive a parallel interface to a printer?
I'm planning to buy a LaserJet 4MP (maybe at more of a discount,
now that the LaserJet 5's are out and about)... there's been pretty
much unanimous agreement amount HP owners that this printer is a real
gem. I've heard Lexmarks give good bang for the buck too.
When the printer gets here, I haven't decided whether I'll connect
it to one of the SGI's (which can only drive it via the parallel port
with the IRIX Impressario driver) or on a FreeBSD box. It will
probably depend on the ease of SysV->BSD printing vs. BSD->SysV
printing.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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