I use an HP Color Laser Jet Pro MFP M283fdw on OpenBSD and it works well with cups. The generic postscript driver works with it on cups, so openbsd lpd should work as well. HP also has some cheaper monochrome laser printers in the same line.
Dave Raymond On 2/7/21, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > On Sep 17 16:07:47, h...@stare.cz wrote: >> Can people please recommend a home laser printer >> that is known to work well with OpenBSD? >> >> I would like to avoid cups, and possibly a2ps >> and foo* and if= and all that dance >> - a printer that speaks postscript and is as easy as >> lp:lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > On Sep 17 18:48:35, schwa...@usta.de wrote: >> what matters is a decent PostScript Processor >> and a RJ45 Ethernet connector, then it will work with OpenBSD >> no matter what. > > After a bit of trial and error, I converged to a Dell 2335dn MFP. > The configuration, in its entirety, is the following printcap line: > lp::lp=:rm=pr.stare.cz:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh: > > Jan > > -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond
