Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:46:31 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printer Message-ID: <20041228024631.GA1393@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20041227193742.GC22614@keyslapper.org> References: <001401c4ec49$d919f020$a23db918@D1TWQX41> <20041227193742.GC22614@keyslapper.org>
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in message <20041227193742.GC22614@keyslapper.org>, wrote Louis LeBlanc thusly... > > Some newer Lexmark printers do support standard protocols, but I > went and spent $80 for a Lexmark color printer several years ago > that spent more time working as a doorstop than a printer. They > used - and still do for some printers - proprietary protocols, and > release their own drivers - you guessed it - for Windows only. > And sometimes not even for all versions of Windows. My one > Windows system was NT, and it wasn't supported. At the time, I > was a Linux user, and even the reverse engineered Linux drivers > weren't able to get it working. Lest somebody gets the wrong idea that all Lexmark printers behave as descried above, my Optra E310 laser printer -- US$[23]00, 199[89] -- is still going strong. It worked/works in Windows 9[58], Me, XP. It of course just works, like a PS printer, in FreeBSD 3.x, 4.x, and sure would in 5.x. > I'll never buy a Lexmark again, and if given one, I'll immediately > put it on EBay or just give it to my front curb. It will be a HP or Lexmark laser printer for me. The one that does double-sided printing cheaply [cw]ould be the deciding factor for me; print-server would be a bonus. Mind that i am interested mainly in sharp and clear black/white text currently. - Parv --
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