From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 21:00:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D4716A46D for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D09DC13C459 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:00:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iwl5W-0007xV-Hh for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:02:00 -0700 Received: from 71-220-154-82.tcsn.qwest.net ([71.220.154.82] helo=.domain.actdsltmp) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Iwl5N-0007wv-0B; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:01:45 -0700 Message-ID: <474B33F0.5040000@math.arizona.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:00:32 -0700 From: Predrag Punosevac User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070916) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Marks References: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACL-Warn: The HELO/EHLO greeting .domain.actdsltmp is invalid X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.9 (-----) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:00:56 -0000 Dominic Marks wrote: > List, > > Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing > (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? > I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain > the last > time I looked at it. > > If you are using this for "real-work" and you are getting good results > please > let me know what you are using (software and hardware ideally). > > The environment I would like to put this into is a family house, very > small > setup with 2 PCs and 2 printers. Currently both are Windows PCs but > one is experiencing all of the classic issues with a multi-year Windows > installation and since they are used exclusively for E-Mail and word > processing I am interested in migrating one PC over to FreeBSD. > > .. If the solution was a Linux distro (box package, or otherwise) I would > also be interested. > ... I am not a subscriber so please keep me CC'ed in the discussion. > > Cheers > Dominic > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" My printing works perfect on all my machines (6 in total) and 2 printers. including printing from applications like Gimp. Printers are HP OfficeJet R60 and HP LaserJet 4L. I used both CUPS and LPD + apsfilter. I prefer LPD+apsfilter in particularly since LPD is included in base distribution. I have not played too much with LPRng+ifhp but I was able to set up basic printing in 30 minutes using that spooling system as well. I noticed that many applications have substandard built in ps filters. CUPS base filter cannot print dvi files :-(. I found a2ps useful for conversion to ps. Cheers, Predrag