Guys, I need some input about what kind of _new_ printer to buy for my desktops. I'd like to hang the printer off my FBSD box; my Ubuntu platform is probably too far away. At least 3 meters.
Circa '01 or '02 I figured my olden DJ500 had cost ~$45/year. Not counting the ink. It kept chugging around until a month or so ago and by now it really is worm out. It makes it's old, clunking, grinding sounds when I power dowwn, but nothing when I boot up. And a friend stopped by this afternoon and checked. Cabling is fine; printer has power. None of the buttons respond; no reset, no formfeed, nada. Only two of the usual three LED's are lit, so it's probably broken, burn-out, or worn out wires somewhere. The problem with buying New---and my wife is threatening me if I buy some older, junker printer---the problem is getting any of these printers that do everything but shine your shoes is: are there drivers to make them work with FreeBSD? I don't care about fax, or features like scanning and copying. About the same with color since most files are code or essays. Nutshell, I'd like anyone's ideas/experiences with some of these new HP/<<< or whateverbrand>>> printers. I wouldn't *mind* if I could scan in text from a techy paper into HTML or PDF or text. But mostly, like 99.44% plain black text. My old deskjet used gs as a filter to print PostScript. Do we have any such plugin support, or are printers still roll-your-own? [FWIW, I can't seem to get CUPS working... altho it maay be my misssing /dev/lpt0.] gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"