OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Gary Kline
we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printcap. is there a laser other than the brother

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
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

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
On 16.06.2011 08:28, Gary Kline wrote: we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printcap.

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer.  i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff.  don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Gary Kline wrote: we had a power out here this morning and besides it costing most of my day, it blew out my Brother laser printer. i just got it working FINALLY with our cups stuff. don't asked me how; other than i was using our olden lpr/lpd and had /etc/printcap. is

Re: OT: printer, our cups port, and is-there-a-generic-laser?

2011-06-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:00:30 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Also, see lpd Printing With FreeBSD http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html It's worth mentioning that real office printers (those that come with Ethernet) traditionally contain their own lpd