From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 16:47:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-56.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E2DB15517 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA05733; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 00:22:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA00515; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:03:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910041703.SAA00515@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Scott Mitchell Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-users@uk.freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP printers & FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Oct 1999 16:43:48 BST." <19991004164348.B360@lungfish.freeserve.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 18:03:56 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just > Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" > s.mitchell@computer.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message