RE: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
What I use: Laser: HP Laserjet 4+. Incredibly cheap on the used market, Postscript simms for these are also cheap, take off the shelf ram, toner cartridges are also incredibly cheap off Ebay, or even from the local Office Depot which sells refurb ones. The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. The print server cards that go in them speak LPR directly to your UNIX boxes. They speak to every Mac ever made if you like Apples, including the lastest OSX. They have a front panel that is configurable with your fingers you don't need to run some damn Windows program that speaks to the printer. Inputs include a parallel and a serial port in addition to the network port if you get the network card. The 4+ will take a duplexer, and an envelop feeder, and a high capacity paper tray. What more could you possibly want in a laser? Some colored printer: Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so when ONE color runs out you just buy a new one of that, you don't have to chuck out the entire thing. Ink (once it dries) is impervious to water. Can obtain ink levels from a program with gimp-print so you don't have to run Windows for that either. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sergei Gnezdov Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:05 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Look at www.linuxprinting.org. Anything that is claimed to work perfectly will probably work well with FreeBSD - go for ones with commonly-used drivers. In general, HP and Epson printers usually work; Canon and Lexmark are more problematic. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
Epson Stylus C8x series (C84, C82, etc.) Use gimp-print and ghostscript to print. Can get full resolution to the printer. Has a parallel port. The C82 and C84 understand ASCII directly in addition to their epson language that you use to print color with. Cheap. Uses separate ink resivors so when ONE color runs out you just buy a new one of that, you don't have to chuck out the entire thing. Ink (once it dries) is impervious to water. Can obtain ink levels from a program with gimp-print so you don't have to run Windows for that either. Yes, just to confirm that I have a C84 and I am very happy with it. Works fine on FreeBSD 5.3. Ramiro. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:04, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I am not able to work whith all in one : HP1210 or lexmark x75. -- (° Dhénin Jean-Jacques / ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^^ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. Am thinking we dropped a couple of orders of magnitude. 10k copies should be two toner cartridges. And while I agree there are probably a lot on the market with less than 10k pages I can hardly ever remember using a printer at work with less than 100k. 300k was common. I do agree, a printer with ethernet and built-in Postscript will result in the best output and easiest support. Current employer has a Canon imageRunner 330 all in one fax, copier printer, beast. Only speaks PCL5e because they are a Windows shop and don't understand the notion of accurate output. Tell it to print duplex from Windows XP with a 0.500 gutter margin to punch holes in and it will dutifully put the margin on the left on both sides. Prints the backside shifted into the holes. Am exploring CUPS on the FreeBSD machine I brought from home. Looking to use it as a Postscript RIP to see if I can get better copy out of the Canon. Its not important enough to spend more than a few spare moments here and there as I am NOT I.T. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
My printer is dead. Can anybody recommend a good printer for FreeBSD: - Lazer (black/white) - Some colored printer I have recently bought a HP Color LaserJet 2550L, which could work for both your needs. It prints fast in B/W, and not-so-fast in colour, but both in great quality. I have used it with DOS, FreeBSD, OS/2, MacOS9 and MacOSX so far. It supports both PostScript and PCL. Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Kelly Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:19 AM To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions Subject: Re: Recommend a Printer for FreeBSD On Mar 10, 2005, at 4:00 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The things are workhorses and last forever, they only need an input roller replacement at 10,000 copies or so, which costs about $100 for a decent printer repair shop, and very few on the used market ever went this high on the page count. Am thinking we dropped a couple of orders of magnitude. 10k copies Oops your right. Add an extra zero. 100K is when the rollers start to wear, although my Dads went 160k before needing the input rollers redone. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
