Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:00:29 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: <sgnezdov@sergei.homeunix.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAELCFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnd2vp16.18m2.use-reply-to@sergei.homeunix.org>
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What I use: Laser: HP Laserjet 4+. Incredibly cheap on the used market, Postscript simms for these are also cheap, take off the shelf ram, toner cartridges are also incredibly cheap off Ebay, or even from the local Office Depot which sells refurb ones. The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. The print server cards that go in them speak LPR directly to your UNIX boxes. They speak to every Mac ever made if you like Apples, including the lastest OSX. They have a front panel that is configurable with your fingers you don't need to run some damn Windows program that speaks to the printer. Inputs include a parallel and a serial port in addition to the network port if you get the network card. The 4+ will take a duplexer, and an envelop feeder, and a high capacity paper tray. What more could you possibly want in a laser? Some colored printer: Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so when ONE color runs out you just buy a new one of that, you don't have to chuck out the entire thing. Ink (once it dries) is impervious to water. Can obtain ink levels from a program with gimp-print so you don't have to run Windows for that either. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Sergei Gnezdov > Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:05 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD > > > My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: > - Lazer (black/white) > - Some colored printer > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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