From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 17:03:44 2008 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 E24C31065674 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:03:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert.raimund@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2ACD8FC28 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:03:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from herbert.raimund@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2008 17:03:41 -0000 Received: from host-194126238033.net-serwis.pl (EHLO bobcat.edu) [194.126.238.33] by mail.gmx.net (mp010) with SMTP; 25 Mar 2008 18:03:41 +0100 X-Authenticated: #18511094 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+sc5JF8HCs49JMKBUaX8QgdOJ6Y9CtrHpsOJukBL UHd9tOJ+Db0A9w Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:08:33 +0100 From: herbert langhans To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20080325180833.058f8841.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: private X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one? 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: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:03:45 -0000 Hi Isaac, this is a good start: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting In the 'printer' section you find a ranking and evaluation how the printers do on unixoid systems. Cheers herbs mount -t wbush /dev/whitehouse /dev/nul On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:12:52 -0400 "Isaac Mushinsky" wrote: > My 10-year-old deskjet being out of ink and probably not worth a replacement > cartridge (it works, but makes some mechanical noise lately), I am > considering a reasonable replacement, preferably with scanning/copy > possibilities. > > I tried to get Photosmart C4280, but while I was trying a faulty printcap on > it, it lost its mind permanently (says 'incompatible print cartridges', and > does not respond to the button combinations that HP support thinks should > reset it). Besides, you can either attach it as ulpt or uscanner device, or > play with hplip drivers as a generic device, but it seems too > confusing. It was a waste of time and money for me and I am going to return > it. > > Requirements: > 1. Reasonable physical size (should not be much larger than the old > deskjet). > 2. Either network/lpd or USB, scanner should be well supported by sane. If > used via USB, it should be a compound device (i.e. printer, scanner and, if > there, the umass device should appear as separate devices to avoid > kld-loading and unloading modules). I heard Epsons show up as compound > devices? any HP laserjets? > 3. Reasonable maintenance cost (maybe a laser printer, I do not care for > color printing that much). > _______________________________________________ > 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" >