So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're
rather expensive ...
I got a Samsung ML-2571N for well under $100 at Fry's something like
a year ago; granted that was a sale price, dunno regular. It speaks
PostScript and lpd, so no need to bother with drivers or CUPS; all
it needs
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:49 -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
printing database
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
printing database yet (http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi).
Question:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
printing
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:51:47PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the
need occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using
Mac OS X. The Epson Artisan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:49:44AM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the need
occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS X. The
Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
printing
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available
as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and
that it's a Postscript printer. If you want to get a printer and connect
it
On Behalf Of Andrew Gould
Time to buy a new printer. I don't print much from FreeBSD; but the
need
occasionally arises. Most of my printing is done while using Mac OS
X. The
Epson Artisan 800 is looking awfully nice; but it's not in the Linux
I can't help with the setup issues, as I don't
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:00:03PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather
expensive. It may be worth the inconvenience of sharing drive space and
printing from the Mac via VNC window. ;-)
The reason Postscript printers tend to be
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:00:03PM -0600, Andrew Gould wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your best bet for printer compatibility is to ensure that it's available
as a network device rather than having to connect to it directly, and
that it's a
Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather
expensive. It may be worth the inconvenience of sharing drive space and
printing from the Mac via VNC window. ;-)
It's not clear to me that anyone posting here had tried printing to a
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote:
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather
expensive.
Not always:
http://wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/usedlasers.pdf
Thanks to Ghostscript, PCL printers will also work.
It may be worth the inconvenience of sharing drive space and
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote:
So the bottom line is: Get a postscript printer. They're rather
expensive.
Not always:
I have a postscript printer. I can send the output of text files to the
printer; but the printer won't eject the page until I send enough text to
fill the page.
Is there a standard page-break or eject page command?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 07:43:44 -0500
Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a postscript printer. I can send the output of text files to the
printer; but the printer won't eject the page until I send enough text to
fill the page.
Is there a standard page-break or eject page command?
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Andrew Gould wrote:
I have a postscript printer. I can send the output of text files to the
printer; but the printer won't eject the page until I send enough text to
fill the page.
Is there a standard page-break or eject page command?
If you're sending PS, it's showpage.
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