From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 05:57:52 2010 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 5F2E71065694 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 05:57:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 436AA8FC22 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2010 05:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id etn31f0010b6N64A3txr5e; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:57:51 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id etxp1f0091f6R9u8PtxqjS; Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:57:51 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 03 Dec 2010 21:57:49 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:57:49 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101204055748.GA46559@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20101203043805.GB8149@comcast.net> <20101203191339.61205ccb.freebsd@edvax.de> <20101204042952.0ac21e45.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101204042952.0ac21e45.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: Vim 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: printer recommendations? 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: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 05:57:52 -0000 On Fri 03 Dec 2010 at 19:29:52 PST Polytropon wrote: >On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 19:26:43 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: >> The last time I used parallel on FreeBSD, it was slow...well, slower >> than expected. Haven't really tested USB printers for speed. >> Ethernet is superior in many ways. > >The speed is acceptable, just the "error messages" are annoying, >started with FreeBSD 7, I think. I do feed PCL into the printer >as this is faster than PS, but recent office class printers do >provide good (and FAST!) PS support. An example for a well-designed >internal CPU is the Kyocera FS-3900DN which also supports >different "personalities"; it might be considered "expensive", >but it will pay. My LJ4+ was connected via parallel and I never noticed any problems with error messages or the speed. But I had nothing to benchmark the speed against, so maybe I just didn't know what I was missing. I'm OK with a printer that's as slow as I am. ;)