On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:28:08 -0700, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote: > is there a laser other than the brother {tm}? i mean, that the > members of this org would go for?
Yes: Office printers, even used ones are fine. Pay attention that they have: - ethernet port - postscript - if not: PCL I'm using a HP Laserjet 4000 with duplex unit myself for many years now - HAPPILY, as I can honestly admit, and in the past, I've been using a HP Laserjet 4 attached to the parellel port. All those "old" printers work wonderfully using just system tools (lpr), as they speak PS, which is the default output format for printing from any UNIX application. If they don't speak PS or are slow processing it, use apsfilter from ports together with gs (Ghosescript) to make PCL from any input. You can do funny things like add "pretty printing" to any text input (e. g. LaTeX), or even issue "lpr picture.jpg" from the command line. Integration of the system tools to image processing or office software is no problem. Don't mess with USB and inkpee, it will cost you more in the final calculation. I also read that some of the brother printers are quite good, as well as Kyocera, but I don't have own experience with them, so I traditionally suggest getting a HP printer. Office printer. Used office printer. For cheap. Really. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"