Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:12:46 -0800 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CUPS and Epson Epson WF-3540 on FreeBSD 9.2/11.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <F2467CDD-B2DA-4778-A4F9-CF212DD47874@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20131105205801.13be6358@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> References: <20131102115534.71afaa03@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org> <1383669454.21378.43329325.475E1FD0@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20131105205801.13be6358@thor.walstatt.dyndns.org>
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Hi-- On Nov 5, 2013, at 11:58 AM, O. Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> = wrote: >> 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. >=20 > A pity. > I think it is hard to find an ink-jet printer that "speaks" natively > PS. Mots of them I saw have their proprietary BLOB driver managing the > communication if they are multi-function-systems - mostly Linux. It costs money to license a real PostScript interpreter from Adobe, = which means that the cheaper inkjets won't pony up for that capability. It looks like the Lexmark Pro4000 and the HP OfficeJet 276dw are sanely = priced PostScript-capable inkjets, but there are literally hundreds of laser = printers around which have native PostScript support, and their cost-per-page = usually is much more reasonable than inkjets end up being. Regards, --=20 -Chuck
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