From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 17:10:52 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 74E4D106566B for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itz@mushinsky.net) Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com (mu-out-0910.google.com [209.85.134.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1E78FC16 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:10:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from itz@mushinsky.net) Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id w9so4597282mue.6 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.144.11 with SMTP id r11mr2797356hud.78.1206465047629; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.139.1 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:10:47 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" To: "herbert langhans" In-Reply-To: <20080325180833.058f8841.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20080325180833.058f8841.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 17:10:52 -0000 Yes, I saw that. But FreeBSD is not linux, and using multiple drivers for the same device is more of a problem for us. HPLIP, on the other hand, requires bare ugen, not loading ulpt or uscanner or perhaps even umass, a very unnatural and cumbersome thing for me (I want umass, and I also sometimes use a Nikon photo film scanner, which work via sane). Thus I am looking for a network device, or if USB, then it should appear as separate uscanner/ulpt/umass. On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:08 PM, herbert langhans wrote: > 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" > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >