On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-12-06, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> After reading through this thread again, doing some online study >> and sending my dad out to find out what he could buy locally he found >> Sam's Club has this HP Color LaserJet for $280 which has specs that >> look pretty good to me: > > Color laser printers are great for things like maps, charts, > diagrams, and graphs, but I've never seen one that did a decent > job with photos. [However, itq has been at least a year since > I looked at printers.] So if printing photos is a requirement, > make sure the printer in question does a good enough job for > you. > > In my experience, any HP that does postscript will work great > with Linux. You may want to confirm that there's a .ppd file > for that model so that CUPS can take advantage of all the bells > and whistles (e.g. selecting resolution, paper source, > controlling duplexing, etc.). > > -- > Grant
Hi Grant, He never does photos so that's not an issue. He seems to want color so his printouts of email look identical to what he sees on the screen. Other than that I think he's really be happied with black & white, but he says he wants color. I'll look around to find out about the .ppd file. I don't know what's in one. Only that when you tell CUPS that you have a printer you can use it. Thanks, Mark
