From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:58:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC8737B401 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32F043EDA for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:58:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaeljritchie@bigpond.com) Received: from Michaels-Laptop.bigpond.com (ppp359.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.244.102]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id gAQ7vwp6073840 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:28:00 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.0.20021126172324.01efee98@mail.bigpond.com> X-Sender: michaeljritchie@mail.bigpond.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:27:40 +0930 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Michael Ritchie Subject: Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'll back up the case against Lexmark. Many of their larger laser models attempt to do both PCL and PS, as well as some other languages. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have licensed the full PCL or PS code, and their emulation isn't the best. Many pages (especially pages with complex font varieties) will fail to render properly. Just a heads-up, from my experience with Lexmark printers ... of course, I'd never use much other than a HP if I could help it. (Some of the larger Canon models seem ok too) Die, Xerox, Die. m To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message