Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 10:37:34 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CUPS and Epson Epson WF-3540 on FreeBSD 9.2/11.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <1383669454.21378.43329325.475E1FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> References: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Nov 2, 2013, at 4:55, O. Hartmann wrote: > > I'm about to purchase the Epson WF-3540DTWF and need to know whether > this printer is also capacle of being run on FreeBSD. > > What I can see so far on www.openprinting.org is that Epson offers > Linux BLOB drivers, wrapped as RPM or Debian DEB packages. There is no > mentioning of FreeBSD or any other UNIXiod OS but Linux. > > It is also mentioned on the www.sane-project.org website, that this > specific printer's scanner is working with Xsane/sane front- and > backend, but it is, again, Linux via the binary, non-free/open driver. > > My question is whether I have a chance to get this printer run on > FreeBSD as well. I intend to attach the printer as a network printer > via a FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT CUPS 1.5.2 server. > > Any advice or suggestion will be appreciated. > > Oliver > I don't think it's likely you'll find this working. I'd suggest you find a printer that can natively speak postscript and works with SANE without a proprietary driver. It's getting hard to find printers that can do this, though.
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