Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 18:03:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Scott Mitchell <s.mitchell@computer.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP printers & FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199910041703.SAA00515@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:43:48 BST." <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk>
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> Having given in to my SO's nagging and decided to buy a new printer, my
> next task is to make sure it works with our favourite OS before handing
> over the cash... The printer in question will probably be from HP simply
> because I've never owned/used one that gave me any trouble, whereas the
> same cannot be said for certain others :-( Anyway, looking through the
> specs for the current crop of Deskjets, many of them apparently use
> something called 'Printing Performance Architecture' -- these also seem to
> be the models that don't even offer Mac support, so I assume the 'Printing
> Performance Architecture' is some kind of poxy WinPrinter thing that is
> best avoided. The rest of the range talks PCL Level 3 which I believe is
> fine for tools such as GhostScript et. al.
>
> Any confirmation that these are valid assumptions would be appreciated.
> Please cc: to me as I'm not subscribed to -questions these days.
FWIW, I agree with your philosophy. I can't claim to know anything
about ``PPA'', but in my book, PostScript = best, pcl = good,
anything else = bad :*I
> Many TIA,
>
> Scott
>
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