From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Oct 23 14:51:07 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0118FC1E808 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:51:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D434BF0 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 58A88CB8CA2; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 69.209.224.207 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <51209.69.209.224.207.1477234260.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20161023145846.5381df860d1410643eb845a0@sohara.org> References: <20161022224754.162d0870.freebsd@edvax.de> <20161023004100.33fc999a.freebsd@edvax.de> <20161023135334.d11fd376.freebsd@edvax.de> <20161023145846.5381df860d1410643eb845a0@sohara.org> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 09:51:00 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: Is it time to retire the scanner ? From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Polytropon" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 14:51:07 -0000 On Sun, October 23, 2016 8:58 am, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:53:34 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > >> On FreeBSD, getting that printer to work in CUPS requires no big >> efforts, you don't even need the PPD file. You even don't _need_ >> to use CUPS as you can print PS directly to the printer - no >> driver needed, only a printer spooler. And this hasn't changed >> in 10 years... > ` > Probably not in the previous 10 years too (well it's almost 2017 > and the LJ4000 came out in 1997), I know for sure that you could spool PS > to a Laserjet 4 with lpr/lpd under FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 because I did just > that. And to add to that, HP keeps making supplies for their this old printers. We do have HP LaserJet 4050 in our Department which was purchased around 2001 or 2002. Still works, HP still makes toners. Kudos HP! (To the contrary to Xerox who one day decided to go bad, don't get me started ...) Valeri > > -- > Steve O'Hara-Smith > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++