From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 15:24:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D015B16A417 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ADFB13C465 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia-2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 127A1DF838; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:24:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:24:40 +0100 From: cpghost To: Dominic Marks Message-ID: <20071126162440.123800ad@epia-2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> References: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Organization: Cordula's Web X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:24:44 -0000 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:19:49 +0000 Dominic Marks wrote: > Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing > (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? > I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain > the last time I looked at it. I'm using an HP 1320 (PostScript printer) + cups to do printing. It works like a charm when it is attached with a parallel cable; OTOH I was never able to print via USB to that beast (no joy with print/hplip etc...) from FreeBSD (even though it works under XP and on most Linux distros). Here, OpenOffice generates the best printing; but all Qt3-based printing shows bad kerning artifacts, the letters being not evenly spaced -- I don't know if it is fixed in Qt4. Printing from Firefox is okay for some sites that took corrective measures in their printing stylesheets to counteract FF css/printing bugs, on other sites it is often quite ugly (compared to MSIE, which does a much better job at printing whatever you throw at it). All in all, YMMV. It depends on your requirements. > .. If the solution was a Linux distro (box package, or otherwise) I > would also be interested. Well, disregarding the problem of not being able to talk to my HP-1320 via USB (instead of parallel), all other problems are not FreeBSD-specific; they show up in Linux distros as well. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/