On Sunday, Nov 24, 2002, at 23:08 US/Pacific, Cliff Sarginson wrote:

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:19:31PM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote:
Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?

I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this week.

Are they all pretty much FreeBSD-compatible?
or is there some spec I need to look for?

I assume parallel port is still the way to go
or is USB really ready on FreeBSD?
The most painless way to print within FreeBSD is with a Postscript
printer which speaks lpd protocol on ethernet.

Sadly this is quite an expensive way.
If you can find one on eBay or somewhere, look into a Lexmark Optra Color 40 (or 45).
Nice color inkjet printer, WITH Postscript. It comes with a fighting 2MB of memory, but add a 32 or 64MB SIMM and you're good to go; prints great from FreeBSD, WinXP, and Mac OS X. I've loved mine for two years, and recently acquired another NIB that I might, MIGHT be talked out of. Better yet, go find your own - should be less than $100. Recommended.

KeS

BTW, I was recently looking to see what else is out there, and the best I came up with is an HP 2280 at $450.


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