Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:10:47 -0400 From: "Isaac Mushinsky" <itz@mushinsky.net> To: "herbert langhans" <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a good printer/all-in-one? Message-ID: <bbe9e35d0803251010v55ab39cfq202c0621cddb251e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080325180833.058f8841.herbert.raimund@gmx.net> References: <bbe9e35d0803250912s7f596c7bsbe546e19de83c43a@mail.gmail.com> <20080325180833.058f8841.herbert.raimund@gmx.net>
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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 <herbert.raimund@gmx.net> 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" <itz@mushinsky.net> 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" >
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