Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-19 Thread perryh
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-19 Thread Da Rock
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

[OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread 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 printing database yet (http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi). Question:

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Roland Smith
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread David Kelly
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
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

RE: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Bob McConnell
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Chad Perrin
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Warren Block
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

Re: [OT] printing question

2008-11-18 Thread Andrew Gould
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:

OT - printing question

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Gould
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 ___

Re: OT - printing question

2008-07-03 Thread Andreas Rudisch
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?

Re: OT - printing question

2008-07-03 Thread Warren Block
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.