Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 12:54:58 -0800 (PST) From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com> To: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer selection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980101123922.22317C-100000@bsampley.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <199801011805.KAA06934@jupiter.neptune.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Doug, This a difficult question to answer because there are so many "depends". It depends on: 1. Where will you be using it (work or home)? 2. Who's paying for it? (you or work)? 3. What's the primary purpose (graphics, text, typesetting, etc.)? If it's for work (and they're paying for it :-) ) go for a laser printer which supports postscript natively. If it's for home and you don't want to spend a truck load of cash, check out http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html for a list of printers supported by the latest version of ghostscript. If you're going to use ghostscript I would suggest installing apsfilter from the ports collection. It does a good job of taking the pain out of setting up print services. Personally, I use a HP DeskJet 870 Cse with the cdj850 'driver' for ghostscript 5.03 and apsfilter. I'm very satisfied with both. Hope this helps. - - burton - - --------------- Burton Sampley bsampley@best.com or bsampley@haywire.csuhayward.edu PGP key available at http://www.best.com/~bsampley/pgp.html On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Doug Jolley wrote: > Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:05:00 -0800 (PST) > From: Doug Jolley <doug@bigwheel.net> > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Printer selection > > I want to purchase a printer. I know that whatever I get will > probably come with a Windoze driver. However, I want to make > sure what I get is going to be compatible with FreeBSD. What > should I keep in mind in making my selection. Thanks for any > input. > > ... doug > _____________________________________________________________________ > Doug Jolley mailto://doug@bigwheel.net http://www.bigwheel.net > Don't bogart that file, my friend. Net it over to me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNKwCqXt2O8KJtMdBAQEBWgQAnmme7k3xXS0dhsLRdmTRVJJkG2rTIp26 lkoMVbCorNQWmsLsIowJmdLCa5zIzGzN6uEw2WhYaA2ro2NawGUvaQ3wU/wXbmIT 4qY/SGIrsQkVmReOdhrNVlmCajsLtDBAu9/UGPykuKC9uZKCeaHC356lGeaklxAx tRZEAiqB4mA= =MKJE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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