From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 12:34:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2F614BFD for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:34:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991024193419.QEMB3040.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 12:34:19 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA69034; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:34:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: "Artem Koutchine" Cc: Subject: Re: Which printer to buy? References: <001601bf1e0f$30277c20$0100a8c0@m1> From: Kevin Street Date: 24 Oct 1999 15:34:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: "Artem Koutchine"'s message of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:00:52 +0400" Message-ID: <874sfgr1s5.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 23 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Artem Koutchine" writes: > I am thinking about buying a new printer. > I have been using Epson Stylus for several years > and had no technical problems with it under all > OSes i use (Windoze 9x/NT, FreeBSD, plain DOS). > Now i thinking about buying something more modern > which can print with better quality. I consider one of > HP printers in around 130$. The problem is that they > use HP language (is it called PCL?) and i do not know > if i am going have problems with it under FreeBSD? > Any ideas, comments, suggestions will be appriciated. An HP printer will work fine. Take a look at apsfilter in the ports (/usr/ports/print/apsfilter) which will help you set up a printer so that it can print anything. I'm using an HP DeskJet 695C and can print web pages, postscript, flat text etc with no problems. I've also got it set up so I can print from Windows machines across the network using samba (/usr/ports/net/samba). -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message